Automated Process Management: Optimizing Value Chains
Automated Process Management
Optimizing the Value Chain
Automated process management tools digitize and organize the value chain by integrating horizontal and vertical systems to create integral services.
Horizontal Systems
These systems accelerate market response and enhance the ability to deliver desired products. They improve the efficiency and effectiveness of key processes, facilitating interconnected business areas with rapid information flows.
Vertical Systems
These systems provide specific solutions for the missions and functions of a determined sector within the organization.
Workflow Management
Viewing procedures as workflows offers advantages. People involved in a process no longer need to rely on paper documents, faxes, or phone calls to track application status.
Examples:
- RENIEC: Duplicate ID
- SUNAT: Import/Export Management
Workflow Dimensions
- Logic: Defines the activities and their order (sequential, parallel, dependent, etc.) to achieve the process objective.
- Users: Specifies the departments, roles, and individuals responsible for specific activities within the process.
- IT Infrastructure: Identifies the software entities that automate activities.
Workflows are classified based on process value and repeatability.
Process Control Systems
What is a Control System?
A process control system ensures that actual activities conform to planned activities, keeping the organization or system on track.
Examples:
- Controlling temperature and humidity in buildings
- Managing transportation systems (cars, trains, planes)
- Monitoring variables in manufacturing processes
Designing a Process Control System
- Understand the process to be controlled by defining its differential equation (process model) using physical, chemical, or electrical laws.
- Design the controller based on the process model.
Why Control a Process?
- Increased productivity
- Reduced labor costs
- Enhanced safety
- Lower material costs
- Improved quality
- Reduced manufacturing time
- Lower in-process inventory
- International market certification
- Sustainable development
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Concepts
MRP is a production planning and inventory management system that answers these questions:
- What to manufacture/provision?
- How much to manufacture/provision?
- When to manufacture/provision?
Basic Functionality of MRP
Net Requirements: The MRP considers the gross requirements, obtained the Master Production Plan for Finished Goods, and the requirements obtained from a previous run MRP for parts. 2.Definición Lot size: The purpose of this role is to bring the net requirements in batches economically efficient for the plant or supplier. A) Lot by lot: b) Period fixed order C) Fixed amount 3.Desfase in time consists of the requirements phase out starting from the date of delivery, using leadtimes (delivery) fixed to determine your start date in April . Explosion Materials: The structural part of the MRP that runs its core concept: Linking Demand with Demand Dependent Independent 5.Iteración: Consists of the first four steps repeat for each level of the List of Materials until the requirements of each Article and component – Planned Orders Change-News-News —– Exception THE STATEMENT OF MRP Production Planning for Dependent Demand only insofar as it is linked with the satisfaction of independent demand. are two independent 1.Demanda (originating outside the system and can not control its variability). For example: the demand for finished products is usually outside the company in the sense that the decisions of the customers are not controllable the company, although they can be influenced. 2.Demanda Dependent (demand for components that assemble final products) and above all, emphasizes the relationship between the two to try to reduce their own inventories of systems such as the reorder point. For example: even if demand is forecast to 400 computers for the next month (independent demand) Management may determine make 600 this month, which were specified for 600 keyboards, mouses 600, 600 sources, 600 Mainboards.GOALS —– RPM 1) Reduce inventory investment 2) Improve the Efficiency of Operation of the Plant 3) Reduce the impact of changes in the MPS) 4) Determine realistic obligations. 5) Increase efficiency. 6) To provide early warning. 7) Provide a scenario of long-term planning. 8) Develop the logic of planning and programming for the receipt of Materials 9) Distinguish between dependent and independent Claim 10) The goal of MRP is to provide a more effective, sensitive and disciplined to determine material requirements of the company. – PROBLEMS —– 1.Capable Infinite MRP: In other words, the MRP considers that has an infinite capacity for production. Currently there are modules that work in conjunction with MRP to try to attack this problem. 2.Large Leadtimes planned: The assumption of fixed leadtimes, plus the assumption of finite capacity, leadtimes also assumed constant. However, in most manufacturing systems is not true. 3.Nerviosismo the System: Given the structure of MRP algorithm is easy to induce dramatic changes with very small variations in the gross requirements. example: given a run MRP feasible if the demand is slightly modified, can be obtained an infeasible plan, methods to determine estanderes-Standards are used as averages of past experience, but this method is not suitable because it can result the effect of perpetuating the inefficiencies. -To determine the standards is one of the most important aspects of the Standard Cost Accounting for the benefits this will vary in direct proportion to the care with which standards have been established.