All manufacturing companies have the same challenge
All manufacturing companies have the same fundamental challenge when planning sales orders, jobs, and POs. When can orders be shipped and what items need to be made and purchased to meet target shipping dates?
DBA generates target dates automatically based on your Big 3 MRP Settings
Your MRP settings (P item Lead Days, M item Job Days, and a clear cut Order Policy) are used by DBA to automatically calculate the Pre-Job Lead Days for your manufactured items, your Time to Shipment targets for sales orders and your replenishment time action windows for your items. These settings and calculations are used to establish SO line required dates, job planned start and finish dates, and PO line due dates.
SO required dates are generated during order entry
SO line required dates are auto-generated during order entry and serve as MRP target dates. The SO line requirement dates are the principle driver of demand for the MRP system and also are used for allocations in the Sales > Picking Manager screen to ensure that you are always shipping in priority order.
MRP creates jobs for your for sale manufactured items based on firm SO demand
MRP creates your top level jobs when sales orders requirement dates fall within the item's planning period action window. This ensures that your Jobs are always based on firm sales order demand. The Planned Start Date of a Job is the target release date for the system and drives demand for lower level jobs and POs.
MRP aligns subassemblies and purchased components with the planned start date of your jobs
MRP will then progress through all levels of production generating subassembly jobs aligning the finish date of the subs with the Planned Start Date (planned release date) of their parent jobs. After all levels of production have been converted, MRP will then generate purchase orders and align the purchased components with the Planned Start Date of their jobs.
The Job Finish date is self-adjusting with job release
Jobs are released to production based on material availability from inbound jobs and POs and stock on hand. Jobs are only released when all materials are available and allocated by DBA for the job. Upon release, jobs are assigned new finish dates to reflect actual released dates. The released job finish date establishes a new and reliable supply date for that item.
PO Schedule provides feedback on late supply
You will clearly see purchased components that are late for job release in the dependency view of the PO Schedule screen. This screen can provide a valuable resource for tracking POs that are holding up your production schedule. If a supplier firms up a delivery date, you can manually update the PO expected date and this will flow through to the Job Release screen and dependency view.
Late Supply screen helps you manage customer communications
The Sales > Late Supply screen provides feedback to your office staff to update the Expected Ship Date for Jobs that are running behind schedule.
Picking Manager helps ensure that you are shipping on time
The Sales > Picking Manager allocates your stock on hand in priority order to ensure that you are staying on time across all sales orders company wide.
Scheduling is totally automated
The scheduling system is totally automated, meaning that there is no need for manual intervention with any scheduling dates except for rare exceptions. All dates are derived from item order policies and allocations.
Boosting your manufacturing efficiency
Generating a master schedule is an essential element in boosting your manufacturing efficiency. Instead of struggling with tedious manual planning, inefficient quantities and unreliable dates, and all the expediting that goes with it, you generate jobs and POs quickly and efficiently within a coordinated master schedule that gives you an action plan for shipping on time.
