ESI Production Control Module

The control of work in progress is one of the most complex day-to-day tasks facing the operations manager. ESI's ES/2000 Production Control Module provides you with the ability to maintain and analyze data pertaining to order status and priority, shop capacity and load, work in process inventory, job cost, and production efficiency. Master file records are maintained for inventory items, work centers in the shop, and production routings. Planning capacity, ensuring that bottlenecks are avoided and generating high levels of shop floor productivity are all part of the challenge. In today's fast moving environment being able to track the current status of jobs on the factory floor is essential.

The shop floor scheduling of each work order by working days or employee number is maintained through the Time Changes section in the Production Control module. ES/2000's Material Requirements Planning section ensures that necessary raw materials are in stock or ordered when scheduled. The Purchasing section allows just-in-time receipt of parts from vendors, while the Shop Floor Control section permits a quick response to customer orders.

Open order records listing items on order, operations to be performed, and material allocated and issued are maintained for each open production job. Labor expended and materials issued are applied to the open order records in order to provide a history of job cost per operation and type of material consumed.

ES/2000 Production Control Sections

1. Shop Floor Control	3. Purchasing	5. MRP
2. Capacity Planning	4. Time Charges

1. Shop Floor Control
The ES/2000 Shop Floor Control section provides all functions required to manage and control the manufacturing floor, including online routing maintenance (including revising routing information), labor reporting, and scheduling. The shop floor control section maintains the data needed to optimize ontime completions, evaluate plant work load, and determine capacity needs. ES/2000 Shop Floor Control section is integrated with other modules and sections to maintain current work order information at all times.

2. Capacity Planning
Designed to evaluate the impact of MRP orders against available production capacity, ES/2000 Capacity Planning section helps you identify over and under capacity conditions before problems have a chance to occur.

3. Purchasing
The Purchasing section provides the framework for the management of the purchasing function. Purchasing may be driven by an order point inventory system, planned orders from Requirements Planning, the users manual requisition system, or any combination of these. Purchase orders can be generated in your own terms or in your vendor's (house or vendor item number, unit of measure, etc.) through the use of a purchasing conversion feature. Purchase orders can also be revised at a later date and new change notices printed for your vendor. Open purchase order reports are available in sequence by purchase order number, item number and vendor. These reports may also be produced for a selected range of delivery dates to provide the information required in follow-up work.

4. Time Charges
Collect machine and labor time by employee, machine and item. Track yields and cycle times by item number, operation and date. Obtain build histories, item genealogies, and component "where-used" reporting.

5. MRP
The MRP section takes all of the requirements and forecasts, entered into sales orders
and compares them to current inventory levels, established manufacturing runs, and
open purchase orders. Requirements are exploded from sales orders only where there
is insufficient inventory or work-in-process (scheduled for completion in the desired time
frame) to satisfy the demand.

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