Production Scheduling

[Kamal Ghosh]

Dear Friends
The Production scenario of one our client is:
One of the customer of our client follows Kanban system, hence it gives our client a production schedule, five days prior the items to be supplied for that particular day, on two hourly basis (as this customer is into Kanban). Our client has a constraint of only one line; he has to toggle between the changeovers to cater the needs or demand of the customer.

Now that he gives our client the specific requirement every day. Our client can respond in two ways.
1. He can maintain huge FG inventory to cater to the need of his customer.
2. Or he can cater to his customer by frequently changing over the line as per their requirement.

In first case his inventory carrying cost goes up.
In second case line change over cost shoots up. Moreover it is not practical for him to change over very frequently as change over time is large enough, and it involves the wastage of semifinished raw material.

Hence please suggest a tool in JD Edwards which can suggest optimum batch size for lesser change overs, and based on it what is the optimum inventory for each end product for that line.
Please suggest me a solution.
Regards
Kamal Ghosh

 

[Krofire.com]

You describe a classic Business dilemma. Many large Companies are "outsourcing" the problem of stock holding to their smaller suppliers. This is great if you have large purchasing clout, ie, you are the Ford Motor Company, but tough if you at the end of the chain. I see this problem quite often. Sometimes the solution is better cooperation between supplier and customer.

The bad news is: NO, there is no tool in JDEdwards that allows to square the circle. It is not that sort of intelligent tool. It is only an ERP system. You have a big, fundamental, supply chain problem which might benefit from the help from some specialist Supply Chain Consulting organisation. A software tool might not be the first answer.

However, you may find it beneficial to ask this sort of question of some of the Supply Chain Management or APS Vendor to see if they have advanced features to calculate this based upon known constraints.

 

[Tim Lyons]

What you are asking for falls into the realm of APS systems. JDE's Production and Distribution Planning and Production Scheduling applications might be possible solutions. PDP can suggest production quantities based on your defined production constraints. Production Scheduling can optimize the sequencing of the work orders to achieve minimum costs.

 

[Kamal Ghosh]

Dear Mr. Tim
Thanks for the mail. I am working with JD Edwards India in this regards.
Regards
Kamal Ghosh
tim_lyons39 <[email protected]> wrote:tim_lyons39 replied to your post at the site: .
http://www.jdelist.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=Apps&Number=51731

What you are asking for falls into the realm of APS systems. JDE's Production and Distribution Planning and Production Scheduling applications might be possible solutions. PDP can suggest production quantities based on your defined production constraints. Production Scheduling can optimize the sequencing of the work orders to achieve minimum costs.


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[Kamal Ghosh]

Dear Mr. Brown
Thanks for the informative mail. I am working in conjunction with JD Edwards India in this regard.
Regards
Kamal Ghosh
MBrown <[email protected]> wrote:MBrown replied to your post at the site: .
http://www.jdelist.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=Apps&Number=51708

You describe a classic Business dilemma. Many large Companies are "outsourcing" the problem of stock holding to their smaller suppliers. This is great if you have large purchasing clout, ie, you are the Ford Motor Company, but tough if you at the end of the chain. I see this problem quite often. Sometimes the solution is better cooperation between supplier and customer.The bad news is: NO, there is no tool in JDEdwards that allows to square the circle. It is not that sort of intelligent tool. It is only an ERP system. You have a big, fundamental, supply chain problem which might benefit from the help from some specialist Supply Chain Consulting organisation. A software tool might not be the first answer.However, you may find it beneficial to ask this sort of question of some of the Supply Chain Management or APS Vendor to see if they have advanced features to calculate this based upon known constraints.


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