Solutions for Production Management Challenges

The core mission of a production management system is to provide consistent, well-defined execution and control of manufacturing processes. It must provide accurate, up-to-date information and be flexible to accommodate and manage rapid change. It requires the integration of every task—from product planning and purchasing, to maintaining bills of material (BOMs), to inventory planning and quality control.

The PeopleSoft Manufacturing business solution synchronizes planning and execution throughout an enterprise, enabling you to respond quickly to customer requests and order changes. One of the features the PeopleSoft Manufacturing production management business solution provides is on-demand planning capability. You can perform what-if scenarios without affecting actual data and without running optimization. With up-to-the-minute precision, you can schedule and dispatch production by production area or work area and accurately track production completions and work-in-process. You also have visibility of incoming purchase orders and allocation of inventory. The comprehensive plan-to-produce solution that the PeopleSoft Manufacturing system provides includes powerful core functionality such as backflushing, shift reporting, subcontracting, multiple cost sets, cost roll-ups, Just-In-Time (JIT) support, and serial and lot tracking.

The PeopleSoft Manufacturing production management business solution provides an integrated suite of applications that enables you to improve the efficiency of the supply planning and management processes. Whether the production is discrete, repetitive, make-to-order, assemble-to-order, make-to-stock, or mixed-mode, this PeopleSoft business solution enables you to plan and manage the processes flawlessly. Enterprise-ready applications provide swift, efficient access to the information you need at every level of the enterprise.

The PeopleSoft Manufacturing production management business solution includes:

  • PeopleSoft Manufacturing

  • PeopleSoft Supply Planning

  • PeopleSoft Inventory

  • PeopleSoft Quality

  • PeopleSoft Cost Management

  • PeopleSoft Engineering

  • PeopleSoft Flow Production

PeopleSoft Manufacturing

Within PeopleSoft Manufacturing, you can dynamically maintain complex product structures or BOMs, resources, work centers, tasks, and routings. In addition to the basics, such as revision control, component yield, and master routings, PeopleSoft Manufacturing streamlines and enhances key administrative engineering processes. For example, you can automate approvals and controls between engineering and manufacturing, and attach multimedia representations and instructions to complex operation steps.

To complete important tasks such as forecasting, material planning, allocating materials to production, or doing cost roll-ups, you need accurate and reliable BOMs. PeopleSoft Manufacturing enables you to manage all complex product and process structures and multiple subcontracting and nonsubcontracting scenarios.

You can:

  • Set up, maintain, and run inquiries and reports on BOMs.

  • Copy and delete BOMs and routings.

  • Detect looping BOMs.

  • Define master routings.

  • Obtain crucial BOM costing data.

  • Control BOMs by revisions or by effectivity dates.

  • Generate automatic revisions.

  • Manage revision, BOM, and routing documents with secure versioning using seamless enterprise document management integration.

  • View engineering pending engineering change order (ECO) data on PeopleSoft Manufacturing revisions, BOMs, and routings pages, if you have PeopleSoft Engineering installed.

  • Specify alternate BOMs for an item, define production options (effective-dated BOM and routing combinations), and define and track multiple outputs (co-products and by-products) throughout the system.

  • Define specific component revisions to be associated with an assembly, define substitute items, plan for the end of life of components and the beginning of life for their replacements (use up effectivity), create rework BOMs, and indicate that a component could be a potential output from a teardown order.

After you decide what product you are going to produce, use the detailed routings (including scheduling options, cost codes, tasks, and routing times) and work centers with their associated resources (crews, machines, tools) in PeopleSoft Manufacturing to specify how you will build the product. You can maintain crew, machine, and tool data by incorporating multimedia attachments and text.

PeopleSoft Manufacturing works with PeopleSoft Engineering, PeopleSoft Cost Management, PeopleSoft Supply Planning, PeopleSoft Inventory, PeopleSoft Purchasing, and PeopleSoft Asset Management. Use with PeopleSoft Engineering to transfer BOMs and routings from manufacturing to engineering or engineering to manufacturing by approved engineering change order or by assembly item. You can also make mass BOM changes.

The PeopleSoft Manufacturing system synchronizes planning and execution throughout the enterprise, enabling you to respond quickly to customer requests and order changes. You can manage production for discrete, repetitive, make-to-order, and hybrid environments. Core functionality such as backflushing, shift reporting, subcontracting, JIT support, and serial and lot tracking enables you to shape the production functions to match the way you organize your business.

Use PeopleSoft Manufacturing to establish the foundation of the system based on multiple transaction processing entities (business units). You have the ability to centralize or decentralize certain key business functions. To minimize data redundancy and promote standardization, you can set up data, such as items, to be shared among multiple business units.

PeopleSoft Supply Planning

PeopleSoft Supply Planning is one of the keys to advanced planning and scheduling (APS) capabilities for optimizing the supply chain and providing true asset optimization at the plant level. PeopleSoft Supply Planning provides an APS system that enables realtime optimization of plant-level procurement and production.

PeopleSoft Supply Planning enables you to weigh constraints (such as cost, lead time, capacity, material, and inventory) that may affect your ability to respond to your customer. It can simultaneously optimize material, aggregate capacity, and safety stock, as well as customer requested and scheduled ship dates, producing down-to-the-second production schedules.

PeopleSoft Inventory

PeopleSoft Inventory provides integration capabilities; tracking, analysis, and reporting tools; and item maintenance and storage location features.

PeopleSoft Inventory uses PeopleSoft Workflow to route item approvals to appropriate role users. PeopleSoft Workflow works in conjunction with item approval processing. A scheduled background process scans the database for unapproved items and sends an electronic message to the appropriate role user. PeopleSoft Workflow also supports hierarchical approval processing, sequentially routing an approval item to multiple users.

PeopleSoft Quality

PeopleSoft Quality enables you to control the processes, automate labor intensive tasks, improve communication within the enterprise, and accelerate ISO 9000 certification.

PeopleSoft Quality combines online statistical process control (SPC) data collection with the power of a relational database. You can use PeopleSoft Quality to configure the process environment, but you can also use industry standard quality controls or create your own, monitor process performance, and perform online quality data analysis using the interactive tools in PeopleSoft Quality.

PeopleSoft Cost Management

To operate a business successfully, you must have a complete costing solution. PeopleSoft Cost Management enables you to define the cost foundation, manage product costs, cost and create accounting lines for financial-related inventory transactions, and analyze financial transactions and manufacturing variances.

PeopleSoft Engineering

PeopleSoft Engineering helps you manage the product introduction and change process throughout an enterprise in a dynamic design-to-deploy business solution. Features such as ECOs, engineering change requests (ECRs), engineering bills of materials (EBOMs), engineering routings (ERTGs), item revisions, substitute items, and automated workflow perform together to optimize the engineering and manufacturing process.

See Suite of PeopleSoft Product Development Business Solution Applications.

PeopleSoft Flow Production

PeopleSoft Flow Production focuses on streamlined shop floor execution. Define replenishment attributes to provide a powerful automated tool for signaling replenishment and moving material within the supply chain. The goal is to effectively communicate production and material replenishment signals using a variety of methods, most notably by creating and scanning Kanban cards and labels; routing replenishment requests using Kanban cards, workflow, Pull Lists, and Pull Tickets; or triggering replenishment through completions.

See PeopleSoft Flow Production Documentation.