Labels

Label (bar code) printers are usually slow and depending upon your network may be error prone. iVP CMS  majority of the clients uses a software called 'Label View'. Here is the tip. Let's suppose you need to print 4 copies of a label. Instead of sending 4 copies of label from CMS to label printer, you can configure CMS so that you send only one copy of the label with the instruction to printer to print it 4 times.

Pushing demand from 866 to 862 to sales order

ILVS sequential orders are transmitted via 866 document and shipping demand is transmitted via 862 document in EDI. 866 is about packaging racks in sequential order a.k.a blend numbers . Demand should be received through 862. What if you are dealing with a trading partner who is hitting you  with  'over zealous' 866 where you are being asked to package more than the demand you have received through 862?  iVP CMS being the intensive supply chain software has the functionality to push the extra 'demand' from 866 to 862 to sales order. This functionality is not turned on by default. It can be turned on by configuring your trading partner.

Finite scheduling for repetitive with multiple routing (router)

If you are a repetitive environment with multiple routings and are using finite scheduling then you must turn on material constraint as inter dependency of routing on each other in repetitive environment is determined through material constraints.

iPod Touch

My daughter who is a 7th grader was pushing for iPod touch. I and my wife being a stone age generation (remember email?  were resisting. At last caved in and she got her iPod Touch. My wife also liked it and mused about having iPhone for herself. I also liked it. She asked me what did you like about it? To which I responded.

Turn on, Turn off at my own will. What else a married man wants?

Contractual Services a.k.a Outside Service and freight

It is always tricky to setup contractual services in an ERP system. It somehow falls between purchasing and production and a compromise is required to decide whether business requirements will be forwarded to purchasing module or production module of the software. Imagine a scenario where you are shipping materials and expecting finished good back from your vendor and you have to calculate freight. How would you calculate weight of the shipment? Part (finished good)  is not there but usually weight is calculated based on part on the BOL. iVP CMS can be configured to use 'material part' for this scenario by using plant part master flag 'Use Label Quantity as BOL Part Weight if Label Unit Equals to BOL Weight Unit'

Repetitive Scheduling per shift

iVP CMS repetitive scheduler is enhanced to enable whiteboard repetittive scheduler to select a specific shift for scheduling.

iVP CMS MRP Book

I have written a book on MRP for iVP CMS. This book describes configuring MRP, fine tuning,  troubleshooting etc. Unfortunately the book was not published. However I will be posting many tips from my book on this blog.