Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 4 · Inventory Organizations and Plants
Four worked plant models
Lesson 34 of 188 · 2 min
Four scenarios, end to end. For each: the facts, the structure, and the reasoning. One. Single plant, single legal entity, two hundred staff. One item master, one plant, and that is it. Shown first deliberately, because simple is correct when the facts are simple, and the pressure in this module runs toward over-modelling. If you find yourself adding structure here, ask what requirement it serves. Two. Two plants feeding each other, one legal entity. Two plants plus a shared warehouse, and the two questions that follow: the inter-organization transfer overhead, and whether the warehouse earns its own organization or is a set of subinventories inside one of the plants. That second question has no single right answer, and it is the same question the lab asks. Three. Two countries, two legal entities. Separate organizations are mandatory — the one rule that is not a judgement call — and separate cost…
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In this module: Module 4 · Inventory Organizations and Plants
- 1What we are building
- 2The decision you cannot undo
- 3The organization object model
- 4The item master organizationFree preview
- 5Organization granularity — how many?
- 6Running the facilities design workshop
- 7Four worked plant models
- 8Creating the item master organization
- 9Creating an inventory organization
- 10Organization parameters
- 11Enabling manufacturing on a plant
- 12Subinventory design
- 13Locators
- 14Inter-organization relationships
- 15Proving the structure works
- 16What breaks
- 17Lab briefing: the Halden Works structure
- 18Lab solution walkthrough