Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 4 · Inventory Organizations and Plants
Running the facilities design workshop
Lesson 33 of 188 · 4 min
Who is in the room: the operations lead, the materials or warehouse manager, the controller, and somebody from the plant floor who actually knows where things are stored. If the controller is not there, the costing implications do not get raised — and you will redesign later. That is not a maybe: half of this module's decisions have a costing consequence, and the controller is the only person in the room who will name it. Before the workshop, if you possibly can: start with a site walk, not a whiteboard. You will see storage areas nobody mentions and processes nobody documents. The material in the corridor. The rack that is officially not a rack. The bin somebody labelled by hand. None of that is in a requirements document, and all of it is in your subinventory design by the end. The question sequence, nine, in this order. One. List every…
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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