Product Roadmap and Direction
Manufacturing : Scheduling to Execution
Joseph A. Phelan, CPIM
11 May, 2011
Session : BT2
Product Roadmap and Direction
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customer is the mission and purpose
of every business.”
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Safe Harbor Statement
The following is intended to outline QAD’s general
product direction. It is intended for information
purposes only, and may not be incorporated into
any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver
any material, code, functional capabilities, and
should not be relied upon in making purchasing
decisions. The development, release, and timing
of any features or functional capabilities
described for QAD’s products remains at the sole
discretion of QAD.
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Building to an Effective Enterprise
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Building to an Effective Enterprise
• This is what you have said
- Make better planning/scheduling decisions
• Workbenches
- More automation for manufacturing
• Manage by exception
- Extending/connecting the enterprise
• Integration / interoperability
- Better access to manufacturing information
• Leveraging mobile devices
- “Next level” of manufacturing (process and
discrete)
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Making Better Planning / Scheduling
Decisions
• Master Scheduling Workbench (MSW)
- Aligns demand and supply throughout the
planning horizon
• Highlights supply shortages
• Calculates projected inventory
- Calculates and monitors workload capacity
• Highlights overloads
- Provides access to processes and information to
put decisions into action
• Shows immediate effects
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Making Better Planning / Scheduling
Decisions
• Production Scheduling Workbench (PSW)
- Aligns demand and supply throughout the scheduling
horizon
• Highlights supply shortages
• Calculates projected inventory
- Calculates and monitors workload capacity
• Highlights overloads
- Component Availability Check (CAC)
• Checks material availability before committing to
production
- Provides access to processes and information to put
decisions into action
• Sequencing (drag and drop)
• Shows immediate effects
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Making Better Planning / Scheduling
Decisions
• Kanban Workbenches
- Kanban sizing methods (interactive workbench
approach)
• Loop
- Based on demand, lead time, and safety stock
• Process
- Based on demand, period interval, setup time, and
production cycle time
- .Net technology base
• Improves performance
- Calculation help and analysis capabilities
- Simulation support (save/load)
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Product Roadmap and Direction
More Manufacturing Automation
• Periodic costing
- Compliance issue with (local) legal tax
requirements in many countries
- Compliance issue with the IFRS
- Meet established business practices
• Retro-pricing
- Accounting
Compliance
- Automatic
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Product Roadmap and Direction
More Manufacturing Automation
• Load-leveling, constraint-based master
scheduler
- Order smoothing
- EPEI
- Finite capacity
• Builds master schedule automatically
- Reduces manual effort and
Time
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Product Roadmap and Direction
More Manufacturing Automation
Planning vision
Material
plan
Load-leveling,
constraint-based
master scheduler
Finite capacity
production
scheduler
Material
requirements
planning
Master scheduling
workbench
Master
schedule
Production
scheduling
workbench
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Extending / Connecting the Enterprise
• Quality Extensions
- Establish improvements in quality management
through inspection result processing
• Document quality test results associated with attribute
values
• Consistent product specifications
• Quality criteria and supplier certification
• Supplier performance
- Product traceability
• Backward / forward
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Extending / Connecting the Enterprise
• Serialization
- Improve supply chain efficiency (operations)
• Trading partner regulations
- Brand/product protection
And safety
• Counterfeit products
• Tracking / tracing
- Compliancy issues
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Extending / Connecting the Enterprise
• Connectivity / services
- Fully integrated inventory transaction APIs
- Label / bar code printing
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Better Manufacturing Information Access
• Information requirements
- Adoption of the .Net UI and reporting framework
technologies
- Enhanced usability and flexibility
• Combine information needs
• Customizable
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Better Manufacturing Information Access
• Business Intelligence
- Connects people to data
- Analyzes data and disseminates measurement
information
• Provides visibility to historical trends resulting in
operational insight
• Supports better, faster
business decision-making
- Cut costs
- Identify opportunities
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Manufacturing to the Next Level
• Mixed mode manufacturing environments
- Single solution design
- Integrated features
- Consolidated
• Business processes
• Consistent UI
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Manufacturing to the Next Level
• Item characteristics
- Extended item attributes
• Attribute values must be stored by item
• Track and trace each material by its attribute values
- Establishes a database to improved capabilities
to manage inspections in quality processes
- Helps meet regulatory compliance
• ROHS ((restriction of hazardous substances)
• REACH (registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction
of chemicals)
• SOC (substances of concern)
• GHG (greenhouse gas emission data)
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Manufacturing to the Next Level
• Item characteristics : example
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Item attribute (potency)
Formulas
Batch balancing
Work order allocations
Lot trace capabilities
• Lot trace workbench
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Manufacturing to the Next Level
• MRP/Gross Requirements Calculation
- Material planning for lean production
environments (pull systems)
- Component demand
• Average demand calculation
• Kanban workbenches
- Process
- Loop
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Manufacturing to the Next Level
• Lean transactions
- Cumulative orders
- Accountability
- Improved integration (closed loop)
• Subcontract supply subsystem
- Plan components for outbound shipment
• Pick / ship (sub-location)
• Ownership accountability
• Subcontractor sends kanbans
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Building to an Effective Enterprise : Summary
• Near term
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Periodic costing
Information requirements
Business intelligence
MSW/PSW and kanban workbenches
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Item attributes (potency / batch balancing)
Quality extensions (traceability)
Serialization
Connectivity / services
Load-leveling, constraint-based master scheduler
Lean material planning / extensions
Subcontract manufacturing
Retro-pricing
• Future
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Metrics Affected
Process
Better tools for Master Scheduling
and Production Scheduling
Benefit
Value
•Aligns demand and supply, and
capacity workload to improve
customer delivery and minimize
inventories
•10% to 30%
•Improve customer service
•10% to 30%
Master Scheduling tools to
automatically build constraintbased, level-loaded schedules
•Master scheduler’s time reduction
•Master Schedule feasibility
avoiding resource over
commitment
• -5% to 20%
Serialization infrastructure identifies
products and streamlines supply
reporting
•Reduces labor time
•-5% to 20%
Provides improved decision support
when establishing Manufacturing
plans and schedules
Product Traceability
Manufacturing Business
Measurements
•Supports compliance and public
safety
•Highlight manufacturing processes
requiring management action to
improve productivity
•-5% to 20%
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Product Roadmap and Direction
Next Steps
• Attend Increase Your Manufacturing Efficiency
with QAD's Planning and Scheduling
Workbenches
- Wednesday at 4PM
- Speakers:
• Carianne Nieuwstraten, Senior Product Manager, QAD
• Chris Loerch, Senior Manager of Plant Supply Chain,
Cascade Engineering
• Attend Get Lean! Leveraging Lean
Manufacturing to Drive Plant Efficiency
- Thursday at 11 AM
- Speaker:
• Sharon Ward, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, QAD
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Questions & Answers
Joseph Phelan jpq@qad.com
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