Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 5 · Units of Measure and Calendars
What breaks
Lesson 51 of 188 · 2 min
Six cases, and notice how few of them name this module in their symptom. One. "The BOM quantity is out by a factor of a thousand." A conversion. Not a typo. Two. "The work order is scheduled to finish on a public holiday." A calendar exception is missing. Three. "Scheduling stopped working in January." The calendar was not generated far enough forward — predictable a year in advance, and discovered on a Monday morning. Four. "Resource capacity looks half what it should be." The shift pattern is wrong; reported against the resources module, caused here. Five. "Inventory drifts by small amounts every month." Conversion rounding on a high-volume item — the one that takes longest to find, because nothing is wrong with any single transaction: each is correct to its own precision, and the drift is the sum. Six. "We changed a conversion and historical reports changed." Conversions are retroactive…
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