Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 1 · The SCM Landscape
The SCM application family
Lesson 5 of 188 · 2 min
Ten applications, and the same four facts for each so the shape sticks: what it is, its one-sentence job, what feeds it, and what it feeds. Product Management — items, structures and the product record; the master data everything else consumes. Inventory Management — what you have, where it is, and every movement of it. Manufacturing — work definitions and work execution, turning components into finished goods. Cost Management — valuing all of it and producing the accounting. Receiving — the doorway in, and it is shared between Procurement and Inventory, which is why it belongs to neither. Shipping — the doorway out, shared between Inventory and Order Management. Four more are adjacent rather than in this course. Procurement, where purchase orders come from. Order Management, where sales orders come from. Supply Chain Planning, which tells you to make or buy in the first place. And Maintenance, which is structurally…
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