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Supply chain management

MAKE
The process of converting raw materials,
components, or parts into finished goods that
meet a customer's expectations or specifications.
Manufacturing commonly employs a man-
machine setup with division of labor in a large
scale production
Product Design Process
Product Design
1. Idea Generation:
The design process begins with understanding the
customers and their needs. Ideas for new products
can come from a variety of sources both within
and outside the firm.
2. Screening Ideas:
The purpose of screening ideas is to eliminate
those ideas that do not appear to have high
potential and so avoid the costs incurred at
subsequent stages.
Product design process
3. Feasibility Study:
Initial screening of the ideas is designed to stop
the ideas, which are unsuitable for further
considerations. Feasibility study consists of a
market analysis, an economic analysis, and
technical and strategic analysis.
Product Design
Product Design
4. Preliminary Design:
Design engineers take general performance
specifications and translate them in to technical
specifications. The process of preliminary design
involves building a prototype, testing the
prototype, revising the design, retesting and so on
until a viable design is determined. Design
incorporates both form and function.
Product Design
5. Pilot Runs and Testing:
In the preliminary design stage, prototypes are
built and tested after several iterations, pilot run
of the manufacturing process is conducted.
Adjustments are made as needed before finalizing
the design.
Product Design
6. New Product Launch:
Launching a new product or service involves ramp
up production. The process has been refined and
debugged, but it has yet to operate at a sustained
level of production.
Production Scheduling
Supply chain management
Production Scheduling
Scheduling can be defined as “prescribing of when and where each
operation necessary to manufacture the product is to be performed.” It is
also defined as “establishing of times at which to begin and complete each
event or operation comprising a procedure”.

It identifies that what resources would be consumed at what stage of

production, and according to the estimates a schedule is made so that the
company doesn’t fall short of resources at the time of production.

The production schedule prepares in-depth estimates of future cash flow

also to identify the requirement before taking up a project. Production
scheduling tries to optimize the use of the manpower so that there are no
excess manpower or shortage of manpower during the production process.
Principles of Scheduling:
• The principle of optimum task size: Scheduling
tends to achieve maximum efficiency when the task sizes
are small, and all tasks of same order of magnitude.
• Principle of optimum production plan: The
planning should be such that it imposes an equal load on
all plants.
• Principle of optimum sequence: Scheduling tends
to achieve the maximum efficiency when the work is
planned so that work hours are normally used in the
same sequence.
Production Scheduling Inputs
• Performance standards: The information regarding the
performance standards (standard times for operations) helps
to know the capacity in order to assign required machine
hours to the facility.
• Units in which loading and scheduling is to be expressed.
• Effective capacity of the work centre.
• Demand pattern and extent of flexibility to be provided for
rush orders.
• Overlapping of operations.
• Individual job schedules
Scheduling Strategies
• Detailed scheduling: Detailed scheduling for specific jobs that
are arrived from customers is impracticable in actual manufacturing
situation
• Cumulative scheduling: Cumulative scheduling of total work
load is useful especially for long range planning of capacity needs.
• Cumulative detailed: Cumulative detailed combination is both
feasible and practical approach
• Priority decision rules: Priority decision rules are scheduling
guides that are used independently and in conjunction with one of
the above strategies, i.e., first come first serve. These are useful in
reducing Work-In-Process (WIP) inventory.
Types of Scheduling
Forward scheduling
Forward scheduling determines start and finish times of next priority
job by assigning it the earliest available time slot and from that time,
determines when the job will be finished in that work centre.

Backward scheduling
Is often used in assembly type industries and commit in advance to
specific delivery dates. Backward scheduling determines the start and
finish times for waiting jobs by assigning them to the latest available
time slot that will enable each job to be completed just when it is due,
but done before.
Forward & Backward Scheduling
Facility Management
Supply chain management
Facility Management
Facility management is a business practice that optimizes
people, processes, assets, and the working environment to
support the delivery of the organization's commercial
objectives. It ensures that the customer's facility is in
optimum operational condition and that they are receiving
services in a prompt and organized manner.
Facility Management
• Automated Work Force Management - A tightly integrated
Enterprise Asset Management, Scheduling and Mobility solutions.
Intelligent Call Scripting - Optimum way to record issues raised by
customers over a call.

• One click Work Order creation - An highly automated way to

process service request, perform multiple validations and create
work order as a positive outcome. All this with a single click.

• Quality inspection - A customer oriented automated solution to

control the quality of work and gather customer feedback.
Multi-dimensional Pricing models - Pricing rules based on multiple
factors to incorporate multi-dimensional pricing models.
Facility Management
• SLA Monitoring - Priority based SLA tracking based
on the time that a work order is sitting in a
particular status.
• Out of Scope Services - Display out-of-scope services
as well to the customers and give them the option to
choose these services. Use this information in the
KPI reports for the opportunity to add new service
line for the customer.
• Work Type handling - Automated solution to
validate the source of generation of work order
initiation and route it to the relevant path.
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