Lean Capabilities
With decreased lead times, your planning process needs to look at smaller, more customer-focused time frames. Planning and releasing the next day's or week's schedule requires more specialized tools.
- Planning by product line / time frame
- Plan a specific product line or cell
- Plan days in advance instead of weeks
- Review shortages and fill them Just In Time
- Synchronize receipts with specific order requirements
- Increased automation
- Automatically create Purchase Orders
- Email distribution to vendors
- Attach Lean Vouchering spreadsheet and PDF PO
- Reduce workload for planning and inventory control
- Consolidate planning for product
lines / families
- Consolidate picking to optimize stockroom activity
- Automate the issuing process to reduce transaction processing
- Use in conjunction with other Lean tools like Backflush by Operation
- No outstanding POs in process
- MRP Order Policy logic