Manufacturing & Supply Chain Planning
Discrete manufacturing assembles parts from a bill of materials. Process manufacturing yields co-products and by-products from a formula, in batches whose attributes decide where they can be sold. Some lines build to stock against a forecast; others build only against a confirmed order. One plan has to hold all of it.
Discrete manufacturing
Anything assembled from parts. A bill of materials that runs several levels deep, a routing through workstations, a work order for each build and a serial number on what comes off the line. Operations sent out to a subcontractor stay on the same order, and a finished unit traces back to every component that went into it.
- Multi-level bills of materials
- Routings, workstations and work orders
- Subcontracted operations on the same order
- Serial-numbered output, traced to its parts
Process manufacturing
Anything made from a formula. A recipe yields the main product together with its co-products and by-products, run in batches, with material consumed step by step rather than all at once. Every batch carries its measured attributes, and those decide where it can go.
- Formulas with co-products and by-products
- Step-by-step consumption and true yield
- Batches that carry their measured attributes
- Only qualifying batches released to a customer
What it covers
Make to stock and make to order
Each product is planned in the mode its market demands: to stock against a forecast and a target cover, or to order against a confirmed sale, with that sale pegged to its own work orders. Both run on one plan, so a mixed factory does not need two systems.
Demand forecasting
Forecasts with versions and snapshots, proportion profiles that push a top-level number down to the leaf, and forecast accuracy measured after the fact — so the plan improves.
Material requirements planning
MRP runs producing planned orders with full pegging back to demand — a forecast, a stock target or a customer order — organised into planning cycles and actions.
Shop floor and quality
Job cards with time and scrap recorded against each operation, workstation capacity, and quality inspection on receipt, in process and before dispatch — the same gates for an assembled unit and a blended batch.
Batch control
Batch attributes and values, and batch disposition, so material is released, quarantined or downgraded on its measured properties rather than its age alone.
Commercial planning
Capacity reservation, coverage groups, channel inventory declarations and promotion events, so a campaign is planned against real capacity.
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