How Production Progress is Tracked

The Track Production Progress feature in contract manufacturing enables a 360-degree view of the supply creation process from capturing the customer order till the fulfillment of the order.

This feature works in the following manner:

• In the original equipment manufacturer (OEM)'s enterprise, Supply Chain Orchestration (SCO) workbench enables the supply chain operations manager to monitor the progress of supply creation process at any given point in time, and also to drill down into the manufacturing application to review the work order and operation statuses in real time. Similarly, a production supervisor can sign in to the manufacturing application at any time and review the work order and operation statuses.

• If there are any exceptions reported by the contract manufacturer, they're recorded in the Supply Chain Orchestration workbench, and the exceptions are notified to the order manager. This enables the order manager to take appropriate corrective actions to mitigate the exceptions.

• The order manager has supply details such as supply order details, supply availability status and any supply exceptions that are being reported by SCO displayed on the order fulfillment page. The order manager is also able to drill down into the Supply Chain Orchestration workbench to review the supply creation process in detail.

• The warehouse manager can track the OEM-owned inventories be it the OEM-supplied components or the finished goods at any time in the contract manufacturing organization.

The salient features of the Track Production Progress feature are:

• Provides 360-degree view of the production progress.

• Enables you to view any supply exceptions.

• enables you to take corrective actions to mitigate exceptions.

• Provides visibility to OEM owned components and finished goods.

• Enables real time visibility to the contract manufacturing production process.