Example Manufacturing Scenario

Outline of the Scenario (to be written)

This is an overview of the main features of manufacturing. As is the case in all opentaps processes, the manufacturing processing provides an end-to-end treatment of these operations rather than an "application" that exists unto itself and therefore leaves the business owner with loose ends that consume time and additional resources to manage.

Preliminaries

As a complete process flow, manufacturing begins with definition of the finished good (product) in the catalog, and then adds the definition of all the purchased materials and services in a raw materials catalog. This provides the system with information about what items are required to make that product.

Suppliers of all the raw materials, component products, and the services are specified along with supplier product or service identification data so that when orders are created they can be placed and filled effectively.

When production requires the use of machines, spaces, or other fixed assets these items are defined so that the system can capture the costs of using these assets in your production runs.

Product Manufacturing Documents

The documentation about how the finished product is actually processed as it is manufactured is captured in three types of items used in the opentaps manufacturing:

• The bill of material (BOM) describes the components and materials used in each stage of the fabrication

or construction of the finished good. The BOM provides for capturing material costs as they are used up in production.

• The routing tasks describe how each step of the manufacturing operations is performed and provides

for capturing the cost of labor and time when executing each step.

• The routings are the documents which specify how the step by step (routing tasks) operations are to

be combined in sequences resulting in a finished good. So routings are the road-map for how the whole production is conducted.

to be continued. . .

• Catalog Setup
  • Finished Goods (the manufactured product)
  • Parts and Raw Materials (purchased for production use)

• Suppliers Setup
  • Materials suppliers
  • Outsourcing Partners in manufacturing

• Fixed Asset Setup
  • Production equipment used in manufacturing

• Product Structure
  • Bill of Material
  • Routing Tasks
  • Production Routings

• Material Resource Planning
  • Ordering the Materials for production

• Receiving Inventory for production use

• Executing a Production Run
  • Planning the Production Run
  • Executing the Production Run
  • Recording results of the run
  • New finished goods inventory