Improve your enterprise resource planning (ERP) performance

We work with you to implement solutions that will optimise your demand management, inventory management and warehouse management systems giving you greater control of your costs and improving visibility of your supply chain. Our knowledge and understanding of ERP systems has been attained over a number of years while working with several enterprise systems, these include but are not limited to: JD Edwards, Manugistics, MFG Pro, BPCS, Movex, Infopath, Fact & Microsoft Great Plains.

How to improve your ERP system with optimisation

We adopt a proven process methodology that will enhance the operation of your ERP system and deliver the improvements that were initially anticipated by your organisation. This involves a structured process that covers the following core areas of your system.

item master (Imast)

A full review of the item master file to ensure that fields are populated with the correct settings that will enable further improvement.

Typical fields include: Item, description, UOM, Lot, serial, weight, master schedule, planned orders, time fence, order policy, order qty, safety stock, safety time, ROP, leadtime, issue policy etc.

bill of materials (BOM)

A review of the existing structure for a product to its lowest level evaluating the structures integrity, conversion rates per level, unit cost, link to a cost centre, link integrity to item master, routing integrity and a full cost roll-up.

The linkage between the BOM with Item master and work centres is critical and needs to 100% accurate.

work centres & routings

Ensure that an operation is reflected in a work centre, the type of machine used in the set up, hours for the set up, run time for production of an item or component, the run rate per hour and the yield which is another term for efficiency, the labour size for the total work centre, labour rate per hour and cost centres with variance accounts.

customer orders (Co's)

Evaluate the integrity of the existing client base, which incorporates customer schedules by date, volume increments that drive the planning process and single or multiple "ship to" addresses.

forecasting

Evaluate how forecasting is undertaken within and outside of the system from a planning and execution perspective. Importance is placed on quality of data and a clean flow of information between other modules and systems.

purchasing

Review the cycle of PO release, frequency of order placement, the cost of order placement and the impact on your inventory levels. This includes a review of lot size and order policy

planning

This incorporates a review of the demand planning process identifying process disconnects, delays in processing and poor use of planning tools.

documentation

Identification and modification of existing documentation that is used to support business planning decisions. For example, promotions planning, launch planning etc

interfaces

Review of all systems and interfaces which focuses on mapping accuracy, data flow timing, elimination of system errors and down time analysis that impacts on the business..

RF scanning procedures

The documentation and procedure development covers all stages of the project: Functional documentation, UAT - User Acceptance Testing and training documentation.

Select a Supply Chain and Logistics Assessment that identifies real improvement.

We offer a range of assessments that are tailored to specific functions within your oganisation that require review. Depending on the scope of works or the scale of your organisation, our assessments are typically completed within 2 weeks of commencement for single site entities. Reference sites available on request.