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Production-Orders And Planned-Production-Orders

The Production-Order is the central document within the production-module of TimeLine-ERP. Its main elements are routing-plan and parts-list.

Creation of Production orders: Production orders can be created manually, via transfer from a customer order or via release of a production-proposal.
Planned production orders: more freedom to plan: Planned production orders allow the reservation of capacity and material without actually releasing a production-order for production. At this stage alterations like split, deferral, re-schedule and merge are possible without significant restrictions.
Release for production: Planned production orders can be converted to released production orders at the push of a button.
Production documents: Easy and efficient printing of routing plans, production orders, part-lists. Report design is free and can be done using PowerBuilder, Crystal Reports or any other ODBC-enabled reporting-tool.
Circulation of items in production: Items in production are managed like stocks. Each production-data feedback carries forward the production-quantities within the routing-plan. A distinction is drawn between good parts, blocked parts and rejects.

Planning and Scheduling

TimeLine features four graphical planning boards which integrate fully into the materials management and sales modules. Thus, TimeLine represents one of the most comprehensive planning tools for foundries in the market.

TimeLine offers unparalleled ease-of-use, effectiveness and precision of production-planning:

Reliable delivery-date ascertainment:
- Finite capacity planning considers current capacity load and material-availability when computing new delivery dates
- Production data automatically feeds back into planning
- "Update"-function allows to recalculate all completion dates based on fresh data
Fully integrated:
- Transfer customer orders directly into the inbox of the planning board
- Drag & drop customer orders directly onto the machine at the desired date
- Automated feedback of planned dates to the sales department
Quickly implemented:
- Define ressources,
- Create routing-plans for your items,
- Enter your customer orders, ...
- ...and start to plan!
Powerful, comprehensive and efficient planning-tools:
- Split, merge, defer, move (backward/forward), set order-priorities, adjust capacity, assign to external contractor, swap ressources/machines, simulate on a separate planning-level - there is virtually no limit as to what you can do in the planning-modules.
- Forward and backward planning, lead time and manual scheduling
- Machine order-sequence planning via drag & drop
- Comparison before-after, pending delays, delivery date diagram, capacity load diagram