Specific Objectives

The second half of Mastery-Level training on Manufacturing (Mfg 2) looks at applying Lean principles to JD Edward's Manufacturing. Lean is a process improvement strategy that has to do with getting more out of less, and this course shows how Lean concepts can be used to streamline your company's manufacturing operations from both a system's standpoint and a process/procedure perspective.

Some of the key lean principles that have been applied to JD Edwards include: continuous system improvement, removing all activities that do not add value, perfect first-time quality, and demand pull.

In terms of the JD Edwards applications themselves, these translate into:

 

• Reducing Product Definition Workload: Shortcuts in entering and maintaining items, bills of materials, work centers, and routings.


• Reducing Work Order Workload: Streamline the material pull operations, achieving greater visibility in managing shortages, line stocking techniques, pay points, and even how to eliminate issues altogether.


• Shifting to Demand Driven Production: Tying production to sales order entry, master scheduling in a demand-driven environment, continuous MRP.


• Alternatives to Traditional Work Order Processing: Kanban, auto-loading of production schedules, repetitive manufacturing techniques.


• Eliminating the Need for Work Orders: Saleable kits, Flattening bills of materials, work cells, production against part families.


• Lean Procurement: Automatic order consolidations, auto-replenishment, Supplier Scheduling, purchasing part families, effortless supplier analysis.

As part of the course, scores of real-world solutions are covered. Each of the solutions has been successfully applied as part of actual JD Edwards implementations and in each case companies have realized change for the better.