Steelman Steel Enterprise Management System - Steelman Steel Enterprise Management System

SEMS® has a production scheduler by work center that the Production Planner can manually adjust daily, the production orders, to meet their needs/demands of orders at each work center.

• Scheduler for production work center sequencing, loading schedules, set up, provisioning-processing at each work center reviewing thru-put capacities, purchasing-sales order, quote demands against a promise date for processing/delivery, CTP/ATP, Capability and Availability To Promise shipments on a specific date.
• Monitor and compare all aspects of the business operation to find “best practices”
• Gain flexibility and increase work center production throughput by scheduling work to work centers across multiple departments and locations
• Automatic linking and data transfer of work in progress from a completed work step specified as input to the next step
• No paper handling required. All details available by scanning bar codes or on RF handheld devices. Work is distributed through the plant with no paper work required.
• Freely integrate Outside Processing operations with the same control and reporting as internal processing operations, providing greater production capacity flexibility
• Monitor actual profit margin through production processes based on real waste and production loss and specific input materials used for each order line item
• Ensure that the right inventory is used in the production process
• Reduce claims by using a fully specified process with customer-specific tolerances with order line details based on one-time data entry to reduce entry errors.
• Advanced EDI integration for inter-plant or inter-company data transfer to reduce or eliminate paperwork
• Completely integrated production calendar for shift planning and up-time allocation.
• Added versatility and profitability from using the Fabrication capability to add additional value and provide more service to your customer
• Increased income from scrap sales which are managed and invoiced in an integrated process.
• Supports a wide range of standard steel processes including slitting, cut to length, shearing, galvanizing, pickling, straightening, burning and pipe and tube manufacturing.
• Handles shape transformation
• Manages bundle break operations. Bundle break elements can be allocated to production orders in virtual form prior to physical bundle break, once the bundle break occurs; the actual new tag is substituted automatically.
• Input materials can be customer-owned for toll processing
• Provides a detailed sequence of steel making and finishing processes customized specifically for the order line requirement
• Designed for the rigors and realities of shop floor operations under harsh conditions
• Most input is scanned and start and stop timing is then automatic, for accurate real cost allocations
• Work orders are automatically generated from Sales Order Work Instructions.
• Work orders are grouped to production orders automatically, with similar work from other Sales Orders
• Work order provisioning is highly automated to minimize potential errors, it is also carefully validated to ensure compatibility with predecessor steps
• Transfer steps between production work centers in different locations are generated automatically
• Multi-time zone facilities can be managed with one integrated system with location-sensitive time and date display
• Packaging processes managed as a separate production process with extra flexibilities
• Tags can be partially allocated to a number of different orders
• Physical tag allocation automatically substitutes for general allocation by ICI or “dummy” tag
• Production orders are automatically assigned to the default work center and can be quickly re-allocated to another similar work center during the scheduling process to balance loading
• Shift calendar is driven from a master calendar with amendment available at each level – Company, Department/Division, Warehouse, Work center
• Add production steps to a work order even after it has been sent to production. (Cancel production, amend, re-provision).
• Add new work centers or add extra shifts to a work center to create greater capacity in bottle-neck areas
• One shift calendar with local variations and time shift by time zone

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