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Is Your Problem Technical or Adaptive?

The Lean Thinker

Trying Technical Solutions on Adaptive Problems An organization had a culture of working around their ERP / MRP system. The expansion, examples and explanations are my interpretation. A new ERP system is a prime example. What Kind of Change Do You Have to Make? What kind of problem are you facing? The software is the easy part.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example.

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How to create a reliable supply chain with effective forecasting and inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Other related tools such as Pareto analysis identify which products are most profitable and hence those you should focus your attention on. Charged with this critical task, the purchasing department can leverage its Material Requirements Plan (MRP) to stay abreast of what’s needed, how much and when. Managing Inventory.

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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available. this is particularly true in ERP / MRP environments.) This all changed shortly after WWII. .”

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Using ERP for flexible manufacturing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

For example, one Australian manufacturer has converted from making just parts for one automotive customer, to being able to produce many different components for a number of different automotive customers. Tools such as scanning and PLC integration facilitates accuracy and timeliness of quality data. Shared data is critical.

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Manufacturers Should Focus on This Most Critical Component for Manufacturing Operations Excellence

GlobalTranz

Skills: programming equipment, setting up tooling, using preventive maintenance, safety systems , machine set up and re-set up. An Example of Matching Systems with People for Sustained Manufacturing Operations Excellence. Does MRP end there? The next phase of MRP was MRP II. Where did they go?

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The role of a Bill of Materials in optimizing your inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

For example, in a bakery business, using the right tool with the BOM, the overall capacity of the oven and fridges could be monitored, and improvements as to how best to use ability could be suggested to reduce electricity costs, capacity constraints and workforce. First, keeping track of the production process is very beneficial.