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Supply chain management,
ERP and capacity requirement planning
ERP Abbate knows a lot about supply
chain management, ERP, capacity requirement planning, product
configurator, MRPII, and business
reengineering issues.
ERP Abbate's supply chain management and product configurator
consultants will tune your company up to nowadays unpredictable
markets. We have gone a long way since the day MRP (Material
Requirement Planning) was introduced, as a new mechanism
to calculate what and when materials were needed and in
what optimal quantities. At that time ERP and product configurator
systems were not even conceived. Later, ERP systems were
developed and MRP eventually evolved in MRPII (Manufacturing
Resource Planning), adding new force-multipliers such as:
- Long
range planning
- Capacity
requirement planning
- Master
scheduling
- Rough
cut capacity requirement planning
- Detailed
capacity requirement planning
-
Shop floor control
Supply
chain management is greatly supported by performing all
these activities in a proper way.
Supply chain management is the final evolution: by linking
an ERP powerful features such as finance, forecasting, sales
order analysis, MRPII programs, and a product configurator
to proper capacity requirement planning tools, the whole
value chain of operations can be optimised, costs and delivery
time can be reduced.
Supply chain management is to face with markets. Market
unpredictability poses new challenges:
- High
stress placed upon product configurator
- Disruption
of supply
- Difficult
capacity requirement planning
Most
of ERP systems and product configurator modules have been
optimised to forecast demand, not supply issues. The challenge
for supply chain management consultants is to bridge the
gap between demand management and supply chain management.
ERP Abbate's supply chain management consultants have to
manage risks in implementing an ERP-related supply chain
management architecture. Supply chain risks come in different
forms:
- Huge
financial risks, stemming out of mismanaged supply chain
systems
- Chaos
risks, coming from ERP complexity and market uncertainty
- Change
management risks, hindering change process
- Decision
risks, affecting MRPII and capacity requirement planning
- Market
risks, impacting upon market opportunities (can your product
configurator transform challenges posed by the customers
into business opportunities?)
- Competence
risk, affecting general efficiency
Supply
chain management, with MRPII and product configurator modules,
offers these advantages:
Supply
chain management, coupled with a product configurator and
supported by the right amount of entrepreneurial core
competence, can make a difference between success and
failure. In today's highly competitive world market it is
important to create and deliver value to the customer. Supply
chain management, system
integration and ERP make you reach this objective and
perform production MRPII and capacity requirement planning
activities in order to optimise your production resources.
Capacity requirement planning
Capacity requirement planning, MRPII, and an ERP-linked
product configurator (with all its possible Web-Enablement
frameworks) are key items. They allow your company to transform
increasing product customisation needs into commercial opportunities
and competitive advantages. With product variables and product
costs defined by your product configurator, MRPII tasks
become far much easier. Capacity requirement planning, MRPII,
and an ERP-based product configurator are extremely entangled
with each other. Why?
- You
need a product configurator to manage product variables
and rules, and calculate production costs
- You
use MRPII to know what raw materials and components you
need to feed your production lines and when these materials
or components are to be in your warehouse
- You
need a capacity requirement planning tool to plan your
production resources and master your production capacity,
without losing sight of delivery times
A
capacity requirement planning tool will release its production
orders to a production supervising system, by which you
can recuperate the final production cost of a product.
MRPII programs are no more time-consuming liabilities, but
fast and efficient analysers within a supply chain management
system. Capacity requirement planning tools, with their
user-friendly graphic platforms, make the rest even easier.
Supply chain management systems cannot be found as plug
and play tools out of the computer market. Supply chain
management, capacity requirement planning, and MRPII require
an architecture to be developed, and a ERP-based project
to run that architecture and build up user's competence.
A product configurator is not a ready to use object, but
a very complex ERP module instead, which needs to be properly
customised according to your needs and properly fed with
correct ERP data and rules.
ERP
Abbate's supply chain management consultants are here to:
- Analyse
your requirements for ERP and product configurator customisation
- Understand
your needs to run a MRPII within a supply chain
- Project
your supply chain management and capacity requirement
planning architecture
- Choose
ERP, product configurator, MRPII, and capacity requirement
planning system
- Help
your staff in implementing this final supply chain management
system
Supply
chain management can be achieved thorough a variety of ERP
and capacity requirement planning systems. ERP Abbate knows
most of them and their multi-platform capabilities. We would
choose the proper combination for you, regardless of any
marketing implications which may stem out from a particular
brand. Remember ERP vendor adverts are made to sell, not
to solve!
Our
supply chain management consultants focus on your goals
with a customer-centric approach to add value to your ERP
and supply chain and increase your customers' satisfaction.
We are here to analyse and solve the gap between your goals
and your current situation. We will work with you to ensure
your goals are met. Give ERP Abbate a call today at: +39
045 683 7169 and solve your Supply chain management, ERP,
capacity requirement planning, product configurator, and
MRPII and business reengineering
problems.
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