Sales & Manufacturing Order Cycle
Course Outline
Day 1
- Administrative Preliminaries
- Introductions
- Course Objectives
- System Variables
- Brief Overview
- Matrices
-Brief Overview
- Basic Database Files
- IM, RT & PS-Part Numbers, Routings and Bills of Materials (ORB)
- WC-Work Centers
- CU-Customers
- VN-Vendors
- EM-Employees
- Costing Options
- Order Cycle Overview
Day 2
- Review order Cycle Overview
- Order Entry
-Discuss OE variables in more detail here
- Engineers Workbench
-Discuss Manufacturing/Job Shop variables in more detail here
- Planners Workbench
- Scheduling
-Discuss Scheduling variables
- Purchasing (abbreviated version)
- Purchase Receipts
- Material Issues
- Labor Reporting
-Review Labor Reporting variables
- Material Receipts
- Shipping & Invoicing
- Inquiries
- Recap Order Cycle
Day 3
- Review Order Cycle
- Selected System Administration Topics
- Job Definition Workbench
- Introduce intermediate topics as indicated by class interests
- Single Level Example
-Order Entry through Shipments
- Multi Level Example
-Emphasis on creating/editing multi-level structure
- Recap Order Cycle
Day 4
- Review Order Cycle
- Case Study
- On-Your-Own
- Multi-Level Order Cycle
- Optional Topics-depending on time and class interest
- Estimating
- MRP
- Implementation Issues (extensive discussions of customer-specific issues are difficult unless the class is composed of students from one company, or companies with similar needs)
- Q & A
