Who are the end users of ERP Inventory system? (Part 2-2)

ERP CHANGE MANAGEMENT

This part is about the ERP Inventory end users and their change management messages .

If you are new with this web log we request you to read preface first.

Who are the end users of ERP Inventory system?

according to our previous discussions, in the following table are messages which should be scattered to each user. As it is shown the table each message is suitable for one or more areas.

If you want to know more about the areas we suggest to read previous post.




Messages Area

· For facilitating and receiving goods, inventory staffs should now ordered goods and the date of arriving.	2
· Not accepting non conformance goods from suppliers is a mandate for our organization.	2	4
· Purchase orders information can help inventory staffs for accepting and receiving goods.	2
· Optimizing quantity on hands can remove stresses keeping too high items and materials in inventory.	2
· Proper inventory planning and preventing not required Purchase Requisitions could be result of accurate and up to date inventory balances.	1
· Rapid and easy access to items in inventory requires a proper item organizing in physical locations in inventory.	2
· Quality specifications on purchase orders are required for proper quality inspection on received items.	4
· Non-conformance items prevention is a principle to gain confidence for our finished products quality.	4
· Following production scheduling, is applicable when there are required items in inventory and this can be reached with appropriate inventory planning.	6	7	9	Mng
· Quick responding to inventory customers is a necessity in enterprise.	2	6	7	8
· Organization costs reduction is a result of costs reduction in all areas such as inventory; inventory cost reduction is a result of decreasing of not required items in inventory.	2			Mng
· Decreasing human mistakes as a basic need can be reached by decreasing hand-operated works and using automated processes by workers.				All
· Our company's success is not only dependent on sales, but also on our company's ability to say, "Yes we have that item in stock”.				All
· Our inventory is one of the biggest, if not the largest investment we have in our company.				Mng
· Reduction of unnecessary inventory is a factual need in order to reduction o f the costs in any organization.	1	2	3	Mng
· ERP system help the warehouse people to get rid of unreasonable challenges with consumers about inventory through publishing on hand quantity of any item to any corresponded user on line.	2
· Preventing keeping unqualified goods in the warehouse is a real need to make consumers sure about the items they get from warehouse.	6	7	8
· Ignoring the manual creation of material request from warehouse is a serious need in any organization.	6	7	8
· Automatic creation of material request from warehouse is needed to reduce the unfair challenge between consumers and warehouse keepers.	2	6	7	8
· ERP integrated system is needed to reduce the waiting time of received goods in the receiving location.	2			Mng
· Ignoring manual activities during material issue from warehouse to consumers is very much needed to avoid any problem.	2
· Systematic available quantity control during the process of issuing requested material from warehouses is necessary to save time and avoid human mistakes.	2
· Tracking the supplier lot through the production process is required to claim suppliers on bad quality materials.	2			Mng
· It is necessary to know about the used batch of material in the production of any product so that causes for low quality of product will be discoverable.	4	6
· Material reservation in the inventory is needed to make production planning possible in the factory.	6
· Online information about reserved materials in warehouses is very necessary for inventory people to manage the materials and issue right item to right consumers.	2
· ERP system is an integrated information system which publishes unique data entity about any fact through enterprise.				All
· ERP system makes it easily possible to track and monitor all transactions done on any particular item.	2	6	7	8	9
· Preventive maintenance requires inventory of spare parts to be planned in sync with the maintenance plans.	7
· Inventory planning people need to have on time information about maintenance required spare parts to be able to satisfy these requirements on time.	1
· Effective production planning needs integration between the production planning department and inventory for effective material replenishment planning.	6	1
· Completion of the production plans need very seriously on time supply of the required materials by warehouse.	6
· Every manufacturing enterprise needs coordination and synchronization between production plant and warehouses and on line information transfer between them in order to fulfil customer orders	6
· It is obviously necessary to access to finished goods inventory information to have correct plan for accepting customer orders and ATP (Available To Promise).	8
· Locator controlled organizing of finished goods warehouse is really needed in order to pick the right product for the right customer on the right time.	8
· Efficient production planning needs on line access to inventory On hands information for production people.	6
· Flexible coding structure is a real need to cover the fast grows up of number of items in large enterprises.	1	2
· Item classification is required to have useful desired report on inventory items.	1	2		Mng
· You need registration in a control workspace and share the registered information for all business areas.				All
· Supplying required items on the required time need to raise purchase requisitions on the right time in order to provide purchasing department with adequate time.	10
· We use reports and inquiries daily to extract information that upper management can understand and can use to take appropriate actions, if necessary.				All
· The Total cost of an item is much more important than the price of an item	4	5
· Awareness of purchase order specification can expedites inventory keeper operations.	2
· Awareness of in coming receiving items can reduce errors in receiving activities.	2
· Any mistake in receiving operations, which is the result of lack of purchase order information, will have difficult consequences in inventory and finance.	5
· Too much quantity for some items and shortages for the others is the result of absence of an effective inventory planning and will have some difficulties for inventory staffs.	2
· Manual activities for delivering of requested material from warehouse not only waste too much time of the warehouse personnel but also cause unfixable human mistakes.	2
· If there is no integrated systems in a factory tracking of the lots (batches) in the production line will not be possible.	6
· If you do not have an integrated information system you can neither analyze the cause of low quality products nor stopping producing low quality products.	4	6
· It is rarely possible to manage reservation in the warehouse without an information system.	2	6	7	8