MFG/PRO eB2

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MFG/PRO eB2Desktop 2

• By
• Amy Conrad Susan Seaborg

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Where Did The Ideas Come From?
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Development Groups

• Automotive
• Shipment Performance
• Container and Line Charges
• Customer Consignment Inventory
• Supplier Consignment Inventory

• Electronics/ Industrial
• Reserved Locations
• Purchase Work Order Accounting
• ATP Enforcement
• SSM Enhancements
• Kanban Management
• Flow Schedule

• CP/ FB
• Linked Site Costing
• Enhanced Distribution Orders
• Work Order Site Control
• Work Order Close dates
• PO Enhancements

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Customer Enhancement Requests!

• MANY simple, uncontroversial good ideas have been
  included in MFG/PRO eB2
• (So, keep those cards and letters coming!!)
• HOW?
• WHERE? ltEnhancement Requestgt

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eB2 Areas of Enhancement

• Financials
• Manufacturing
• Distribution
• Customer Services
• Supply Chain
• Pro/Plus
• System
• External Interface
• UI

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Financial Enhancements

• Logistics Accounting
• Purchasing and Work Order Accounts
• Linked-Site Costing
• Intercompany Accounting
• Improved Financial Reporting

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Logistics Accounting

• Link cost elements of purchased items to
  logistics charges
• Accrue on receipt or shipment
• Match invoices to accruals and account for
  variances

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Purchase Work Order Accounting

• Allocate purchasing variances and accruals by
  site, product line supplier type
• Allocate manufacturing variances by site,
  product line

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Linked Site Costing

• Eliminate cost set copying by linking inventory
  to source costs
• Flexible rules to support different types of
  network

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Multi-entity Accounting

• Support Shared Services Accounts Payable
• Define inter-company account by entity pair
• Raise single check to cover payables on multiple
  entities
• Keep inter-company separate to facilitate
  reconciliation

QAD
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Improved Financial Reporting

• Stock Journal
• Unvouchered PO Receipts as of Date
• GL Account Sheet Report
• Suppress Reopening a Closed Period
• Invoice Numbering Report
• Voucher Numbering Report
• Apply AR payment distribution-line detail
  automatically

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Manufacturing Enhancements

• Work Order Control by Site
• Work Order Dates
• Kanban Transactions Lean Manufacturing
• Flow Scheduling Module Lean Manufacturing
• Improved MRP/DRP Performance

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Work Order Control by Site

• ALL work order update functions controlled by
  site security
• Select work orders by site on ALL functions,
  reports, browses, inquiries

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Work Order Dates

• Added a Work Order Receipt Date and Work Order
  Close Date.
• Automatically capture Userid with Close Date and
  Receipt Date.
• Added new information to Status Report and
  History Report.

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Kanban

• Manage through 1 Card or 2 Card Kanban System
• Manage and track internal or external Kanbans
• Execute Kanban signals via PO Receipts, Item
  Movements, and Production Receipts
• Automatically generate signals to replenishment
  sources

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Flow Scheduling

• Generate rate-based, mixed model master
  scheduling for products and product families
• Sequence production based on priority, capacity,
  and linearity
• Schedule by production line and site
• Level load by defining flex fences
• Monitor time and machine capacity in a schedule
• Optimize flow production levels due to flexible
  workforce or extra machine capacity

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Improved MRP/DRP Performance

• Use Progress Appserver to support multithreading
  MRP/DRP processes across multiple processors
• Selectable by MRP or DRP or both
• Default Parameters override-able at run time

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Distribution Enhancements

• Customer Reserved Locations
• Customer Consignment Inventory
• ATP Enforcement
• Multiple Customer Items on Customer Schedules
• EMT Enhancements
• Purchase Order Enhancements
• Supplier Consignment Inventory

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Customer Reserved Locations

• Minimize shipping lead time by reserving
  inventory to specific customers without a sales
  order.
• Ensure availability of inventory for specific
  customers, by allowing only specific customers
  orders to be shipped from their reserved
  location.
• Manage inventory levels of reserved locations
  through new reporting

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Customer Consignment

• Ability to plan, order, ship, stock, track and
  report customer consigned items while at the same
  time deferring invoicing and AR
• Trigger Invoicing and AR transactions by customer
  usage
• Transfer of ownership occurs as customer usage

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ATP Enforcement

• Control order processing of items based on
  projected availability
• Selectively prevent users from inputting
  subjective due dates that cannot be met by the
  MPS
• Exception reporting to compare the MPS
  information to the Sales Order information
• Track cumulative ATP information

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EMT Enhancements

• Improved synchronization of primary Sales Order
  to secondary Sales Order
• Improved tracking of Sales Order through
  additional status flags
• Streamlined direct shipping process

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Purchase Order Enhancements

• Redirect PO shipments direct to other sites
• Revise line item quantities on released POs

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Multiple Customer Items

• Ship same internal item to satisfy demand for
  multiple customer items
• Update and Report Scheduled Orders by customer
  reference and model year
• Manage a many to one relationship between
  customer item numbers ordered and supplier item
  numbers shipped.

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Supplier Consignment

• Ability to plan, order, receive, stock, track and
  report supplier consigned items while at the same
  time postponing purchase cycle
• Trigger Receipt and AP transactions by usage
  transactions
• Transfer ownership at time of usage
• Satisfy MRP requirements without transfer of
  onwership

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Customer Services

• Customer Services
• Service Contract Enhancements
• PRM Enhancements

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Contract Enhancements

• Optional three-tiered contracts for either
• Multiple end-users, each with multiple items
• Multiple items, each with multiple end-users
• Expanded billing options
• Contract revenue can be posted as accrued, cash,
  or deferred

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PRM Enhancements

• Manage multiple Material Orders (MO) assigned to
  each Project Activity Order Line
• Correct errors in MO consumption through Project
  Activity Recording
• Manage Project WIP through new reporting options

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Supply Chain

• Enhanced Distribution Orders
• EDI Ecommerce

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Distribution Order (DO) Enhancements

• Optionally use a PUSH inventory model instead of
  a PULL inventory model
• Optimize shipping costs by adding items to
  shipment not included in original requirements
• Enable shipping of non-sale items such as samples
• Streamlined DO closed short process
• Manage discrepancies between supply site and
  demand site through new reporting options

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EDI Ecommerce Enhancements

• Relocated EDI Ecommerce menu structure
• Additional trading partner document types
• Self-Bill
• Cycle Count
• Text Information
• Consignment Information
• Status Messages
• Exchange EDI documents in XML format
• New Additions to Trading Partner Libraries
• Additional Process Improvements

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Pro/Plus

• Container and Line Charges
• Shipment Performance Reporting

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Container Line Charges

• Manage container and other charges by line item
• Selectively charge for container depending on
  container used
• Optionally define customized calculation for
  container/line charges
• Track/Validate shipping codes (e.g. AETC or
  airport codes)
• Account for revenue by charge type

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Shipment Performance Reporting

• Monitor shipping effectiveness by measuring
  shipping dates/quantities to requested
  dates/quantities
• Collect performance information on discrete
  orders, scheduled orders, return material
  authorizations, distribution orders, and material
  orders
• Measure performance by required date, performance
  date, due date, and shipment quantity
• Selectively enable performance reporting by
  system, customer, item, or order type

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System Enhancements

• User Security Changes
• License Registration Improvements
• Multiple Time Zones Setup
• Change Tracking
• Oracle Improvements

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System Access Enhancements

• Single Access Methodology to validate User access
  at sign-on
• Menu Password functions renamed to Menu Security
  functions
• Additional User Information
• Country Code
• Variant
• User Type
• Time Zone
• Access Location
• Manage user activity through new reporting options

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Change Tracking

• Monitor Sales Order efficiency by tracking line
  item changes by reason code
• Manage performance by tracking reason code and
  comments
• Streamline tracking process by determining which
  information must be enabled for change tracking

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External Interfaces

• Demand Planner API
• Data Synchronization Improvements
• Q/LinQ Enhancements
• APO Available to Promise

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Data Synchronization

• Manage multiple types of relationships among
  source and destination databases
• Synchronize data across timezones and currencies
• Accommodate local independent operations as
  required
• Multiple methods available for database
  communication

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Q/LINQ

• XML data mapping capability using Extended
  Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)
• Access multiple MQ Series queues with a single
  Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) adapter
• Management of MOM adapter parameters controlled
  by system administrator rather than user
• Additional MOM Adapter tuning tools

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Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO)
Available to Promise

• Obtain real-time ATP information from Adexa
  products as demand is entered in MFG/PRO
• Available for Sales Orders, Sales Orders received
  via EDI, Return Material Authorizations, and
  Material Orders (SSM)
• Determine ATP information from Adexa products
  through order inquiry before entering a sales
  order
• Optionally use ATP enforcement feature when APO
  ATP is not available

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Minor Enhancements

• Control Tables Report (36.17.6) includes
  information on optional modules such as PRO/PLUS
• AP Payment Register (28.9.12) no longer displays
  multiple header rows and columns align correctly
• Address Code Change (2.11) re-written to improve
  performance and can be executed in batch mode
• Item Description displays next to Item Number in
  Supplier Schedule Maintenance (5.5.1.13)
• Approver Report (5.2.1.17) contains additional
  sort options
• Build PO from Requisitions (5.2.18) generates
  e-mails
• Container Archive/Delete function added
• Quality Order Maintenance contains GL Effective
  date
• Ship-To address in Purchase Order Returns stored
  in History
• PO Delete/Archive includes selection by PO type
• Warning Message for Tax Info added to SO Maint,
  SQ Maint, Pending Invoice Maintenance, RMA
  Maintenance
• SIC Code added to Customer Maintenance and Master
  Report

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Thanks!