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Will multiple divisions/companies/sites be supported?
The enterprise system will support multiple divisions, sites
or companies from a single executable copy of the software
and data files. |
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Will multiple manufacturing plants be supported?
A multiple plant or focus factory environment places special
demands on a system. For example allowing the separation and/or
consolidation of manufacturing and inventory information. |
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Will the multiple manufacturing plants be integrated?
Integrated multiple plants may place demand on each other
at various stages of the manufacturing process - either shared
or dependent production. Items may be manufactured for another
plant. |
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Are you a Distributor?
A business that does not do manufacturing but purchases and
resells products. Usually maintains a finished goods inventory. |
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Are you a Distributor with light manufacturing?
Primary business is distribution of finished goods but with
some light manufacturing operations. These may include: Painting,
assembly, special packaging, etc. May require MPS, BOM, routing,
and/or SFC requirements. |
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Do you sell and invoice in multiple currencies?
Impacts requirements for purchasing and accounts payable. |
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Do you buy and pay in multiple currencies?
Impacts requirements for purchasing and accounts payable. |
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Do you engineer-to-order (E-T-O)?
Products where customer's specifications require unique engineering
design or significant customization. Results in unique set
of item numbers, BOM's, and routings. |
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Do you make-to-order (M-T-O)?
Produce finished goods once the order has been received from
the customer, as opposed to picking standard products off
the shelf. The final product is usually a combination of standard
items and items custom designed to meet the requirements of
the customer. |
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Do you make-to-stock (M-T-S)?
Product that is shipped from finished goods, "off the shelf",
upon receipt of a Customer order. The master production schedule
and final assembly schedule are at the finished goods level. |
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Do you configure-to-order (C-T-O/A-T-O)?
Assemble customized products from predefined "features" and
"options" through a final assembly process or manufacture
per defined configuration table or rules to the customer's
order requirements? |
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Do you manufacture in a job shop environment?
An environment which uses shop orders, lots, batches, and
routings to control production in which manufacturing resources
are organized by functional work centers, such as drilling,
forging, turning, etc. - intermittent production. |
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Are you a process manufacturer?
A manufacturer that adds value by mixing, separating, forming
and/or performing chemical reactions. Produces with minimal
interruptions (continuous) in any one production run or between
production runs (batch) of products which exhibit characteristics
such as liquids, fibers, powders, or gasses. |
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Are you a repetitive manufacturer?
A form of manufacturing where various items with similar routings
are made across the same process whenever production occurs
without shop orders. Products may be made in separate batches
or continuously and is not a function of speed or volume. |
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Are you a food or pharmaceutical manufacturer/distributor?
Lot control, product dating, or traceability of product or
material usually a requirement for food and drug manufacturers. |
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Are you implementing Customer Order Processing?
Includes taking and entering customer orders and providing
order and customer status information. |
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Are you implementing Sales Forecasting? |
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Are you implementing Master Production Scheduling?
The anticipated build schedule for those items assigned to
a master scheduler that drives MRP. |
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Are you implementing Rough-Cut Capacity Planning?
The process of converting the production plan and/or the MPS
into capacity needs for key resources e.g. labor, machines,
supplier's capacity, storage space, money, etc. |
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Are you implementing Capacity Requirements Planning?
CRP is the function of establishing, measuring, and adjusting
limits or levels of capacity. |
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Are you implementing Inventory Management?
This includes the identification, tracking, and status of
inventory. |
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Are you implementing Material Requirements Planning?
MRP is a set of techniques that uses bill of material, inventory
data, and the MPS to calculate requirements for materials. |
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Are you implementing Purchasing and Receiving? |
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Are you implementing Shop Floor Control?
A system for utilizing data from the shop floor to maintain
and communicate status on shop orders and work centers. |
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Are you implementing Cost Accounting?
Product costing. |
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Are you a Project or Contract driven manufacturing business?
Generally a requirement for DOD prime contractor, capital
equipment manufacturer (ETO), or field project/service business.
Requires project management capability, including: project/job
costing and accounting, budgeting, cost estimating, progress
billing, ETC, task management, WBS, revenue by project, and
resource tacking. |
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Are you implementing Bills of Material, Formulas, or
Recipes? |
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Are you implementing Operations and Routings? |
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Are you implementing General Ledger and Budgeting? |
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Are you implementing Accounts Payable? |
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Are you implementing Accounts Receivable? |
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Are you implementing Payroll? |
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Are you implementing Human Resources? |
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Are you implementing Fixed Assets? |
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Do you use discrete shop orders?
A discrete shop order is opened for the manufacture of a specific
quantity, and then closed upon completion. |
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Do you repair your products after sale?
Company has an after sale repair facility for shipped products,
and its inventory is expected to be under the control of the
enterprise system. |
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Do you support aftermarket sales of service/repair parts?
Those modules, components, items and elements that are planned
to be used without modification to replace an original part
during the performance of maintenance. |
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Do you require lot number control and traceability?
Assignment of unique numbers to each instance of receipt and
carrying that number throughout subsequent manufacturing processes
so that, in review of an end item, each lot has end item traceability
to the raw materials utilized. |
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Do you require serial number control and traceability?
A serial number is required on the product. This is used for
either governmental reporting, or to track product warranty. |
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Do you require engineering change control?
Engineering change control includes ECN creation, approval
control, tracking, and history of BOM and operation changes. |
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Are you implementing a standard cost system?
A cost system that uses cost units determined before production.
Standards are compared to actual costs and variances are calculated. |
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Are you implementing an actual cost system?
A cost system that collects actual costs as they are applied
to production, and allocates indirect costs based upon their
specific costs and achieved volume. This is not collecting
actual vs. standard. No standard is used. |
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Are customer quotations created?
Estimating and quotations developed for customer RFQ's. |
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Do you subcontract production?
Whenever a production operation is performed outside of the
control of the manufacturing system. This includes sending
production work outside to another manufacturer. |
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Do you have co-products and by-products?
Co-products are saleable products resulting from the manufacture
of another product. By-products are an end item product as
the result of a manufacturing process with minimal potential
revenue (or a cost of disposal). |
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Do you use blanket orders for purchases?
A term commitment to a supplier for certain goods or services
over a specified term at predetermined prices against which
short-term releases are generated to satisfy requirements. |
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Do you store, use, or sell items by potency or grade?
Potency is the concentration of a material, e.g. 52% solution
of HCL. Grade is the sub-labeling of items to identify its
particular specification make up and separate this lot from
others produced. |
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Are your materials or products shelf life sensitive?
Material would have date code and require tracking/traceability. |
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Do you backflush inventory/resources?
Backflushing is an approach where items and/or resources are
consumed by relieving them at standard from on-hand or available
inventory by exploding the BOM at a point in the manufacturing
process. |
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Do you backflush direct labor?
Relieving labor at standard. |
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Will you implement bar code technology?
Bar codes may be on shop paper, shipping documents, inventory
information, labels, etc. |
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Do you require a CAD/CAM system interface with the enterprise system? |
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Do you require a Warehouse Management system?
Provide control over Warehouse operations: receipt, storage,
work planning, inventory, replenishment, order picking, truck
loading and shipping. |
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