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Purchase materials only when a job
requires the material! When your customer places an order with you,
material requirements for that job are determined, and then the
materials should be ordered from the vendor to be delivered as close as
possible to when the job needs it.
Sound like the perfect world? Sure, but if you have a lot of jobs to
track, it can become difficult to administer.
JobOps, Job Management Software has created a solution designed
specifically for this problem. JobOps tracks the start date for each
step, operation, or phase of a job. Then it reviews the bill of material
(BOM) required for each of those steps. The due date for the material
needed for a step then becomes the date that the step is scheduled to
begin.
Next, JobOps creates a list of all the materials that need to be
purchased, by looking at all demand from jobs and orders. This is
compared to a list of available materials during the same time period.
If there is not enough material available, it is flagged as an exception
item – and is added to a list of items that need to be ordered.
All of this analysis takes only seconds.
The purchasing tool from JobOps then allows you to automatically create
all of the purchase orders to fulfill the material requirements for your
jobs and orders during a specified time period. If you want to review
only what is needed for the next three weeks, then JobOps won’t include
materials that aren’t needed until a later date..
The purchase orders tell your vendor when you need the materials shipped
(including their lead time so you get it when you need it) and what jobs
the materials are being ordered for.
When the materials are received, the packing slip from the vendor tells
your receiving dock what jobs the materials need to be distributed to.
The result is that materials are received on time, to the job they are
needed for, and you are spending less in raw materials inventory while
still meeting your on-time deliveries!
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