An iron and steel industry, the new characteristics of the operating environment
Currently faced by the steel industry has to-order production environment, multi-variety, small batch production characteristics. In this situation, the iron and steel enterprises increasingly difficult to forecast user demand, in order to reduce inventory cost savings, the most effective strategy is the traditional operation to predict the main axis of the push-type system into a demand plan to pull the spindle systems. In this production mode, the company's sales department should master the production line real-time data, to avoid the unreasonable signed a contract to avoid the contract price is below cost of production, delivery can not guarantee that other problems; production scheduling personnel must grasp the history of production and present data to the actual production capacity with small orders, development of scientific and reasonable production scheduling plan; production sector also need to grasp the current situation of the various orders, production planning instructions, be able to quickly and accurately under the sales contract and the planning and scheduling arrangements for teams and groups.
ERP in steel production and sales role
ERP is built on the basis of information technology to a systematic integration of management thinking internal resources, procurement, production, cost, inventory, sales, transportation planning, to achieve the optimum and the best mix of resources, to provide enterprises with policy-making operation means management platform.
Part of the traditional iron and steel production flexibility is poor, can not be completely customized manufacturing industry. ERP system through a large number of historical data to predict the market. Customer demand for products also have certain specifications, customers of a product of a month of each year a certain size requirements may be based on historical data over the past five years, for analysis. If the past five years have been increasing, and this increase has not slowed the trend, you can roughly estimate the average increase of demand. Upon receipt of orders prior to the conduct of certain steel production, orders received after the request of the customer pre-production of semi-processed into finished products or components, namely, the relative flexibility of the customer production.
In accordance with an order for production, but the ingredients found in the middle of the deviation, but become another of steel, they can call the ERP, access to order management, to find whether there is similar to that of steel orders. If so, can be transferred to the production of this single; even in the absence of historical data also can be analyzed to determine the most reasonable options. ERP order management to improve the process of such a response speed of response. Flexible management greatly reduced the traditional iron and steel refining process than expected, waste. |
