How to manage complex and frequently changing materials?

Internal Factors

• Changes in customer orders.
• Supplier lead time delays.
• Poor quality of incoming materials.

External Factors

• Provide the capability to adjust multiple lead times rapidly while preserving revision records simultaneously.
• Offer material tracking prioritization for determining production sequencing decisions.
• Implement 80/20 theory analysis for managing production schedules, and prioritize critical materials to meet production schedules first.
• Utilize a big data database for forecasting mid to long-term inventory estimates in the future.
• Trace materials according to orders.
• Provide a list of orders affected by revised lead times, showing the difference in delivery days.
• Offer real-time dynamic material tracking analysis.

The exclamation mark"!" indicates a shortage of supplies alert.

• Red text indicates a shortage.
• Negative numbers indicate insufficient days.

"Error days" indicate a delay in the customer's delivery schedule.

• Red text indicates a shortage.
• Negative numbers indicate insufficient days.

"Simulation Scenario" provides immediate scheduling simulation.

• Red text indicates a shortage.
• Scheduling simulations can be conducted using critical materials.
• Scheduling simulations can be conducted using maximum delivery dates.

Analyze the material situation to determine whether the supply and demand for materials are optimized for inventory.

"Total Forecasted Quantity" for supply-demand balance analysis.

"Estimated Quantity" analyzes the forecasted inventory at demand points.

Current Inventory Quantity

"Import Procurement" ship schedule planning

• The "Shipping Date" field can only be maintained for document type C2. If a shipping date is specified, the system will update it to the estimated export date of the import procurement order.
• Please determine whether this purchase order has already been transferred to another subsidiary company. When Company A's purchase order is converted into a document for Company B's sales confirmation, the sales confirmation is considered to have been converted into a purchase order.
• At this point, the shipping date should be updated directly to the "Estimated Export Date" on the purchase order without the need for calculations.
• For document type C2, the purchase confirmation should be automatically calculated based on the shipping date and the transportation days indicated in the diagram below.

The agreed-upon delivery date with the supplier can be confirmed and updated on the purchase order through EDI (Electronic Data Interchange).

"Delay Reasons" enhance management capabilities.

"Excel Import" reduces the error rate of repetitive tasks.

"Supply and Demand" imbalance alert.

• When the item Z001-E on this work order has "Purchase Quantity < Demand Quantity," it should indicate in red text that the supply cannot meet the demand.
• So, it's necessary to verify if there is a stock withdrawal or allocation of the estimated order quantity.

"Rescheduling"

Reschedule with the maximum bottleneck material delivery date to optimize the procurement plan, and record all materials that have been rescheduled.

• The MPS calculation time will schedule a recalculation based on the maximum date.
• In the dispatch operation, scheduling recalculation is performed according to this station.
• Production and sales platform reschedule based on the confirmed delivery dates from orders.
• There are two options for material tracking:
  (1) If it's the current data, the scheduling estimation is done by fetching the maximum date and then updating.
  (2) If it's all data, the scheduling is updated only for entries where the confirmed delivery date and shipping date fields have values.

※ When a critical material number is selected, it means that its delivery date is always unaffected by changes in other schedules. This operation must be performed by individuals with special privileges.

When choosing "Only Current Data," the scheduling calculation is updated using the maximum bottleneck for scheduling.

When choosing "All Data on the Screen," the scheduling calculation method involves directly updating the expected purchase date based on the confirmed delivery date.