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MRP Software For Electronics Manufacturing
A bill of material with hundreds of lines, where one component on a sixteen-week lead time decides the build date.
Operational Characteristics
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Bills of material run deep and wide. A single assembly can carry hundreds of lines across several levels, and every one of them has to be netted.
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Component lead times and minimum order quantities dominate planning. One long-lead part sets the build date regardless of what the rest of the kit looks like.
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Engineering changes are frequent, and a revision has to be controlled across open orders as well as new ones.
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Components carry lot and date codes that have to stay attached to the assembly they went into.
Common Control Gaps
Shortages Found At Kitting
The kit is picked, one line is short, and the job stops on the floor. The shortage existed in the data weeks earlier and nothing surfaced it.
Revisions Controlled In A Spreadsheet
The approved revision is known in engineering. Which revision the open works order was raised against is a separate question that needs to be checked against the job record.
Test Records Held Apart From The Job
Inspection and test results sit in their own folder. Joining a result to the assembly it belongs to is a manual exercise done when somebody asks.
Minimum Order Quantities And Excess Stock
A reel of ten thousand is bought for a build of two hundred. The excess is real money in a drawer, and nothing in the plan remembers it is there next time the part is needed.
Relevant Capabilities
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Material requirements planning
Material planning across every level of the material list, with each buy recommendation linked to the order that needs it and an order-by date that respects the lead time. - 2.
Parts, revisions and routings
A works order records the bill and routing it was raised against, so the revision it actually ran to stays on the job. - 3.
Quality and traceability
Lot and date-code provenance from receipt to despatch is in Core. Inspection results recorded against the works order are in Factory and above.
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