Material Requirements Planning Module Improvements
DEAR Systems
The Material Requirements Planning module is aimed at addressing the needs of the production process. New production features will provide our current customers with powerful, logical manufacturing solutions to add to their inventory solution.
For more information, see Getting Started.
We would like to know your thoughts on how to further improve this module.
- DEAR Team
Hi Elena,
Yes, this sounds fine and fixes the issue. How quickly can you guys implement this?
Where the Production Order is Nested, will the newly created Production Order (generated from the Master BOM Change Function) still be linked to the Top Level Production Order via the Related Orders?
On behalf of Eddie Watson
To calculate the material usage you require the following for each step in a production process:
I'd like to request an additional layer of dependencies be added to the Production Scheduler. It is helpful for Production monitoring purposes to be able to see which tasks can run concurrently within a production Order, which we can do right now. When actually using the Production Planner for planning purposes however we need to be able to see dependencies between Production Orders. If the finished good from one Production Order is an input for another, we need to be able to see that the two are linked, without clicking into the second Production Order and checking that red unavailable items are already a Released Production Order of their own.
Here's an example, MO-00093 output will be input for MO-00090. Therefore MO-00093 should be notes as a prerequisite for MO-00090, not just a Related Order since sequence is important.
Agree with Kimberlie (I can't vote anymore... ??? )
This is similar to what I mentioned 4 months ago.
Please consider making Production Suspend Reasons a grid. It is very common for one Suspend Reason to apply to several work centers at different times. For example, the Machine Shop and Incoming Inspection could both be down due to separate Unexpected Maintenance.
It would be very helpful to have a UI like this
Please can we have a date for Production Module Endpoints being available.
Hi,
It would be great if we can add a report to show how much time has been affected by each Suspend Reason for Production Orders.
For example, to be able to see how much downtime is caused by unexpected maintenance vs. sanitizing.
Please add filtered data fields to the Product Reorder screen.
Please add selected Supplier to the Product Reorder screen. I have clicked on Supplier McMaster-Carr but there is no way to identify that without clicking into one of the Products in the list.
The Production Scheduler does not reflect actual dates work was completed. Currently, it only shows planned dates of work and current MO status. In the example below work was planned to be done on 02/08/2021 and required by 02/09/2021, however work was actually done on 02/19/2021. The Production Scheduler shows an inaccurate representation of work that was completed. This is harmful for historical reporting and future planning. Please configure the Production Scheduler to reflect actual date of work once the MO has been Released.
Production Scheduler showing planned date of work
Production Order Activity Log showing actual dates of work
I'd like to request a setting is added to allow for the possibility of permitting users to work outside scheduled factory hours.
I can understand how that strict limitation of working hours would work for a large company with very clearly defined shifts and working hours. We however are a very small manufacturing company with very flexible working hours. We do not want to ask or expect (schedule) our employees to work outside of 9am - 5pm however they are welcome to and often do. This means our "factory hours" are very soft. We want to be able to schedule work 9am - 5pm but users need to have the ability to complete work outside of scheduled time periods.
Hello Kimberlie,
Hope you are doing great.
Could you please specify in more details the request? Now we set up working hours for planning purposes: as you said, we schedule resources in their working hours. However, we do not limit the execution of the production orders any convenient for employee time. A worker can open order, press start for operation any time outside scheduled working hours.
So, please could you tell us if there are some issues or lack of functionality when you complete the orders outside working hours?
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Elena
A suggestion was made by a client to have the version number to be visible even after the the production order has been Released. As of now it will only appear until the Planning stage, once Released, it disappears and this information is also not available in the Activity Logs either making it difficult for other users to know which BOM version was used in production.
The possibility of being able to rename the BOM versions would be convenient and also having them as a filter option in production reports. As of now the only report that displays version number information is the Production Cost Analysis report.
We've run into this issue as well, Tariq! It's not mission critical but it does make for longer work flow to check components and compare BOM versions.
Hi - I still can't filter the Scheduler by Tags. Now we can tag production orders we obviously need to be able to search by those tags on the Scheduler to filter the view.
Is this on the cards or am I missing something?