Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 1 · The SCM Landscape
What this course actually covers
Lesson 6 of 188 · 2 min
In scope: inventory organizations and plants, items and structures, work areas, work centers and resources, work definitions, work execution, inventory transactions, receiving, shipping, and cost accounting. Adjacent, and separate projects: procurement, order management, planning, maintenance, quality, product hub. Each of those is somebody's whole implementation, and naming them as out of scope is not modesty — it is the vocabulary you need for the next paragraph. The scoping conversation. Clients say "we are implementing manufacturing" and mean anything from a single plant pilot to a global multi-site programme. Those two differ by a factor of twenty in effort and they sound identical in a meeting. That list is what lets you turn the sentence into a boundary somebody can sign. What this has to get right for everyone else to work is a short and heavy list. The item master feeds everything, everywhere, in every supply chain and finance module.…
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In this module: Module 1 · The SCM Landscape
- 1The SCM application family
- 2What this course actually covers
- 3The transaction-to-accounting mapFree preview
- 4Offerings, functional areas and opt-in
- 5Navigating the work areas
- 6Working on a manufacturing project
- 7Lab: enable, locate, and draw the map