MRP Production Project

The “MRP Production Project” module purpose is to support the “new product development” process management by implementing the following main features:

·       Engineering BoM for new products in prototyping phase: the engineering BoM is converted in Manufacturing BoM at the closure of the new product development phase

·       Documents management for describing technical product features

·       Engineering Manufacturing Order for managing prototyping production process

The Engineering Manufacturing Order features have been built starting from the OpenValue Manufacturing Execution solution and integrating it with the Project and Timesheets ones. Therefore, it is possible to achieve as follows:

·       to assign a project as cost object to a manufacturing order (all analytic lines are posted on the analytic account set at project level) and

·       to charge timesheets on tasks linked to workorders for collecting engineering hours in production process

Engineering Bill of Materials

·       a new BoM type is available: Engineering BoM for segregating the EBoM from the other ones

·       it is possible to drill down at component level to show the BoM related to this component

·       An operation can be set as a “timesheet” one (timesheets indicator has to be set) to collect timesheets; its expected duration is automatically set as zero and a system check avoids to set incidentally a time cycle different to zero.

·       All the features related to a normal BoM for product costing management are available also for engineering BoM also

·       At new product development process closure, it is possible to convert the engineering BoM in a Manufacturing BoM; the conversion is multi-level, that means all sub-finished engineering BoM will be converted also

·       The engineering BoM reference is reported to the Manufacturing BoM to link each others

·       It is possible to convert it only once: a check has been implemented to avoid by incident to convert twice an engineering BoM

BoM Comparison

·       BoM comparison tool is available to compare two BoMs: only differences are listed

Technical Documents

·       Technical documents are segregated to the other ones to distinguish them

·       Check out – Check in process has been implemented to manage their changed

·       A Technical document can be linked to a several products and shown in product master data

·       Document hierarchy is managed to build complex document structure

Engineering Manufacturing Order

·       An Engineering Manufacturing Order is identified by entering an Engineering BoM

·       A project is requested as cost object for collected all prototyping direct costs related to the prototyping production phase

·       The timesheet indicator is checked to be active on project; therefore, the project assigned as cost object at manufacturing order level has to have the timesheet indicator set (a system error checks it)

·       The timesheets indicator is set automatically on a workorder created with reference to a timesheet operation in a BoM; the expected duration is set automatically to zero and a system check at confirmation phase avoids to set incidentally an expected duration different to zero

·       A timesheet workorder can be created manually also by setting its timesheets indicator: the expected duration is set automatically to zero and a system error checks to have incidentally a value different to zero

·       The analytic account related to the project is automatically assigned: all direct analytic are posted on this analytic account.

·       When scheduling manufacturing orders, a task is automatically created for each timesheet workorder and both are automatically linked each other’s

·       It is not possible to start or block manually a timesheet workorder; therefore, for closing it the confirmation tool has to be used

Engineering Tasks

·       Tasks under the project assigned to the manufacturing order are automatically created at manufacturing order scheduling

·       A task is created for each timesheet workorder (workorder with the timesheet indicator set)

·       Timesheets can be entered and reported on manufacturing order

·       It is not possible (system check) to enter timesheet when the linked workorder has been closed or cancelled either

Timesheets

·       Timesheets are collected at workorder level and at manufacturing order level

Workorder Confirmation

·       The workorder confirmation tool has been enhanced for managing timesheet workorders also

·       For timesheet workorders all times are set to zero and both the start date and end date are automatically set as the current date

Manufacturing Times

All production times are collected in a proper page with the following figures calculated in real time:

·       The standard times are related to the operations BoM as follows:

o   Total setup time is calculated as the sum of all times before production entered at work-center level; the timesheet workorders are excluded

o   Total working time is the overall working time for processing all workorders

o   Total teardown time is calculated as the sum of all times after production entered at work-center level; the timesheet workorders are excluded

·       The planned times are calculated from workorders and frozen at manufacturing order confirmation; in detail we have:

o   Planned times as sum of all expected durations of workorders created with reference to a BoM operation

o   Unplanned times as before for workorders created manually (not referenced to a BoM operation)

·       The actual times are the sum of actual times entered at workorder confirmation phase

·       The overall effort entered through timesheet is reported also

Except of “timesheet Times”, all the other figures are available for the “normal” manufacturing orders also.