Production control
With the tools for production control, you always have your production in view.
The main task of production control is to steer production in order to keep throughput times as low as possible and to increase machine utilization.
This includes, among other things, the coordination of material procurement and stocking in cooperation with purchasing as well as the provision of materials for production. The basis for this is meaningful and reliable production planning. SAP offers a wide range of options for this, from classic production planning to detailed production planning.
Take advantage of the benefits of production control
- Create transparency about your inventories, material flow, forecasts, orders, plans, production changes and key figures
- Identify missing parts and improve your supply situation
- Reduction of the lead time of your entire production chain
- Increasing effectiveness across the entire supply chain
Functionalities of the production control
- Demands, your dates and stocks can be according to:
- Material, MRP controller, plant and other selection criteria are displayed
- Based on the requirements in your system, material requirements planning usually generates planned orders, depending on the settings made
- You can release these individually or en masse using defined criteria
- Manual adjustments to the quantities, dates or the work plans can be made by you
- The tabular displays provide you with a good overview of the processing status of the orders, the planned and actual order dates as well as quantity deviations, for example due to rejects
- The basis for a reliable overview of the processing status is prompt feedback after completion of an operation
- Material staging in SAP offers your company the possibility to provide IM- and WM-managed materials to production
- You can manage your materials in Inventory Management or Warehouse Management
- WM-managed materials offer the possibility of mapping logistics processes in much greater detail
- Do multiple plants and warehouses use a common SAP? Restrict the material staging list
- Thus, each warehouse receives its own staging lists with the essential information to provide the materials at the right time in the right quantity at the right place
- KANBAN offers another advantage of material staging in SAP. The term KANBAN is Japanese and stands for map. KANBAN is a method in which production controls itself
- In production supply areas, materials are stored in several boxes, usually in close proximity to the point of consumption. The quantity within the crates is fixed and is based on past consumption. SAP can also support you in defining the number of crates and their filling quantity
- If one or more boxes are empty, it is ensured that the remaining ones are sufficient to continue the material supply. The information that replenishment is needed can be provided in SAP via a manual message by the production employees. However, sensors can also pass on this information automatically to the warehouse via interfaces
- Your warehouse supplies production with new material in a timely manner
- In addition to a lower control effort, this leads to a reduction of inventories in your plant and to cost savings
- In addition to KANBAN, SAP also offers JIT and Heijunka functionalities
- Planning is only as good as the information available to it. Therefore, it is important that the order progress is reported back promptly so that it can be taken into account in your material requirements planning
- Of course, this also applies to the operative events. You always know exactly at which work center the material is currently located. In addition, depending on the process, you can analyze which employee has made which changes to the operation. Note: However, this should be in accordance with data protection laws
- If partial quantities or the entire order are scrap, this is communicated via a confirmation. Your material requirements planning in SAP automatically creates a new order
- This gives you the opportunity to react promptly and find an acceptable solution for the customer
CONSILIO is happy to support you with its expertise in the introduction of a coordinated production control system. In this way, you can ensure that your production is always supplied with the right materials.
Our services for you
- We analyze your entire production planning and manufacturing processes
- CONSILIO identifies potential for improvement along the process chain
- Our experts optimize your production supply (Kanban, Heijunka and JIT)
- When necessary, we implement our best practice planning and manufacturing processes
- Analysis and optimization of parameter settings IoT/MES
