Manufacturing

Having right time information in manufacturing is important. Many factors affect the manufacturing process including quality of purchased goods, timeliness of purchase order shipments from vendors, inventory levels, planning, backlog and many others. Having a solution that can tie all of this information together in a single solution can have a dramatic impact on your manufacturing processes. Having bill of materials integrated with your reporting solution whether it is a BOM explosion, “where used” or understanding is also important in manufacturing reporting as well as understanding where your raw material are for a WIP job.

Some of the questions answered by the discrete manufacturing model are:

  • 1) What are my inventory levels for a WIP job?
  • 2) What is my demand? What does my supply look like?
  • 3) What are my resource costs for a job?
  • 4) What are my WIP transaction details?
  • 5) What are my planned shipments? Short term? Long term?
  • 6) Where will by raw materials for this operation be picked for this WIP job?
  • 7) What are my material deviations between required and issued materials?
  • 8) What are my material requirements for WIP?
  • 9) What are my resources used for a WIP job?
  • 10) What does my routing look like?
  • 11) What departments are used in a routing?
  • 12) What are the operations in a routing?
  • 13) What are the components for a WIP job?
  • 14) Given a finished goods item on a sales orders, what is my component listing?
  • 15) What are my WIP operation requirements?
  • 16) When can I promise this finished good to my customer?
  • 17) What are the results of my collection plan in Quality?

Customers use the Jaros discrete manufacturing module to support their manufacturing processes. As sales orders are taken, the build process can create and schedule a WIP job. The customer can then promise the delivery of the finished good. One of our customers uses this exact process and uses the Jaros solution for reporting. In addition, they can perform a bill of material’s explosion or “where used”. They can track status of purchased goods, inventory levels and backlog which allows them to manage the supply chain. And because they get this information in real-time without affecting their transactional systems, they can effectively manage their manufacturing processes. Jaros supports both discrete and flow manufacturing jobs.