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Break out Session on
Manufacturing
On Saturday May 19th, I attended the
Manufacturing Break Out session. The session was conducted by Kip
Nicholson (Developer) and Mary Hall (Manufacturing Support). The session
was very informative.
Exact's goal is to be the
"Mid-Market Feature Set Leader" so Kip and Mary were happy to
demonstrate some of the features:
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Bill of Resources - has a new look
and includes routings and engineering changes
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Production Order Processing, Shop
Floor and Order Entry are all integrated
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Shop Calendar has new setup
options
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New Integration . ForecastPro
can now be launched from master scheduling. The application
brings in the Order Entry history table and sends forecasts back to
Master Scheduling.
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Revision number field has been
added to track engineering changes - the field is not validated.
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There is a new graphical view of
routings
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Bill of Materials can process
engineering changes, but there can be only one pending change at a
time
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Order Entry transactions can be
linked to the creation of a work order on the shop floor. The
work order can also be entered manually from the Product Order
Processing screens.
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Manufacturing employees are added
to HR first, then additional details are added in the
Manufacturing application.
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In addition, they will be rolling
out the Preactor “Module” which will be an add-on enhancement to
the Capacity Requirements Planning Module specifically for
constraint-based scheduling and modeling. The target market for this
enhancement is the job shop environment, but it will also provide
value for any capacity constrained manufacturer.
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