For a Manufacturing Enterprise, the most critical resources are Men, Materials and Machines. An ERP system manages all these resources. Materials are key to manage the entire Supply Chain Management Process group. A typical product manufacturing business, procures various materials (Raw materials, consumables, MRO etc.), convert these materials with various metal formation machines into Finished Products salable to customers. During this entire supply chain process, information is associated with materials related to physical specifications, costs, process parameters for purchasing, planning, manufacturing, storage, shipping, sales, service etc. etc.
The ERP systems, enable storage of this vast range of information related to each material in the central relational database which is generally referred as "Material Master". The data is so large that it can not be accommodated in a single page or screen. For the convenience of data entry and access, the data is organized in multiple screens which are called "Views".
Today, in your Lab session, you will be creating a new material that you propose to use in business and add data related to many views. While adding this new material, please do not just follow instructions mechanically. Be mindful of what data you are entering, what is it's importance in managing business processes, what options you have, what is the inter-dependence of this data etc. Use online help whenever you have doubt or the terms are new to you. After the lab sessions, later you will be asked about various data elements that you will observe on the various views of material master during lab session.
When you create your new material, please ensure that you enter your "MIS Number" in the item description field. For example: "Solar Boiler 110903014 "
The instructions to be followed for Lab session can be downloaded from Moodle http://moodle.coep.org.in/moodle/course/view.php?id=7 go to period Feb 25 to 2March and download the word document titled "Customer Management Exercises". Instructions for creating new materials are given in sections 4.1 and 4.2, pages 1 through 3.
The ERP systems, enable storage of this vast range of information related to each material in the central relational database which is generally referred as "Material Master". The data is so large that it can not be accommodated in a single page or screen. For the convenience of data entry and access, the data is organized in multiple screens which are called "Views".
Today, in your Lab session, you will be creating a new material that you propose to use in business and add data related to many views. While adding this new material, please do not just follow instructions mechanically. Be mindful of what data you are entering, what is it's importance in managing business processes, what options you have, what is the inter-dependence of this data etc. Use online help whenever you have doubt or the terms are new to you. After the lab sessions, later you will be asked about various data elements that you will observe on the various views of material master during lab session.
When you create your new material, please ensure that you enter your "MIS Number" in the item description field. For example: "Solar Boiler 110903014 "
The instructions to be followed for Lab session can be downloaded from Moodle http://moodle.coep.org.in/moodle/course/view.php?id=7 go to period Feb 25 to 2March and download the word document titled "Customer Management Exercises". Instructions for creating new materials are given in sections 4.1 and 4.2, pages 1 through 3.
It is very important for us to learn about ERP software because the companies that we will work for or our own company will most likely be using an ERP system.
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