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Can e-chain handle multi locations implementations?
e-chain allows an enterprise to implement multi locations on a single global instance. e-chain addresses multi inventory/distribution/manufacturing locations, multiple finance entities, multi currency and multi language in its current release 4.2. |
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Explain Item codification.
e-chain offers a flexible structure to manage and maintain item code. 12 segments can be used simultaneously for setting up the item codes. This functionality comes inbuilt with e-chain Inventory management component. |
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What are item classes in e-chain?
This function helps in classifying the items for item or item type level. There is hierarchical and standard model within item classes. Through Hierarchical method, we can build parent child relationship within the item class values. The item class values can be created on the fly while performing the transactions. This is a useful tool for searching the items while performing Quantity on-hand inquiry, Sales entry, Purchase order entry, Engineering BOM creation and various other reporting needs based on item classification. |
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Does e-chain support item substitution?
e-chain addresses substitution at the time of purchase order receipt, and shop floor order allocation using “equivalent items” functionality. Reciprocal relationship can be built. The equivalents items are considered as supply for the original items. |
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Is Multi Unit of measure handled within e-chain?
e-chain handles multiple unit of measures within unit of measure classes. It also handles Unit of measure conversion within and across the unit of measure classes. The unit of measure conversion is automatically applied in all the inbound and outbound logistics. |
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Is Engineering Revisions allowed?
e-chain can manage and maintain multiple engineering and production revisions for an item within a particular facility. Revision control has validation dates and it can be alpha-numeric. |
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Can we perform Inventory transactions through bar-code RF scanners?
e-chain has Bar-code application which is part of Transaction automation track. e-chain barcode application offers all the inventory transactions through the RF Handheld scanners. Printing of barcode label can be performed through e-chain. |
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What all item controls are available within e-chain?
e-chain allows the Lot / Secondary lot controls. It also allows Serial controls. In addition e-chain allows hybrid of Lot/Secondary lot along with Serial control as well. The lots can be automatically generated while performing the transactions.
e-chain supports locator controls to place the inventory in specific physical location within the sub-inventory. |
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Does e-chain support Min-Max Inventory Planning?
Min-max planning is supported for make and bought items in e-chain. It considers the demand and supply based on cut off dates which is very useful to consider the demand and supply beyond the current date. Automatic replenishment of items happens in the sub-inventory or warehouse level based on min-max setup. We can incorporate ABC classification within Min-max planning. |
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Can we model Safety stocks?
Safety stocks are maintained at item - warehouse level. This is a demand component for the supply chain planning. |
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Can e-chain handle excise tariff classification (Chapter Heading)?
e-chain can handle Chapter headings for items and be reported into the RG Register (Excise) reports. |
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What all item costing methods are supported by e-chain?
e-chain supports Standard and Average costing methods for inventory and manufacturing transactions. Within Average costing, e-chain supports: moving weighted Average, FIFO, LIFO and Actual costing methods. |
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Can e-chain handle Inventory Available to promise?
e-chain handles available engine from Inventory, purchasing, sales and production data. This is a useful tool to make promise on delivery dates to the customer against the sales order. This functionality can be extended more with Supply chain management module (Please refer to Supply chain management documentation). |
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Can we perform inventory moves?
e-chain supports movement of stock between sub-inventories or locators within the same facility. It also supports the movement across warehouses. |
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Does e-chain support lot / serial genealogy?
e-chain supports lot and serial genealogy. We can check all the transactions against an item, lot, serial control for a range of dates through Transaction summary inquiry screens and reports. |
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How to manage inter departmental inventory moves?
e-chain offers wide range of features around department moves called “Material requisition”. We can move inventory from one department to another on a returnable and non-returnable basis. Also the stock can be moved from source department to the destination and maintained permanent. |
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Does e-chain support Available to promise from supply chain planning data?
e-chain does availability check from the Planning engine data that is created from the Supply chain plan run. Supply chain plan can be unconstrained and constrained (material and resource) methods. The great advantage of this system is the powerful Supply chain engine’s data; the ATP engine gives an accurate sales order promise date. The ATP engine looks into the availability of the saleable product and all the sub-assemblies and components involved in the product for availability check. The ATP engine also looks into the availability of resources for giving the promise dates. |
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Does e-chain support forecasting?
e-chain forecasting component gives the users the ability to create forecast for items in monthly, weekly and daily buckets. The forecast can be maintained at the customer or customer location level as well. The forward and backward consumption of forecast against sales order demand happens during the sales order booking. The forecast can be grouped into one forecast set and rolled into the master demand schedule. Hierarchical forecast consumption is possible in e-chain with parent and child forecasts. The max level of Hierarchies recommended by e-chain is 5. |
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What is demand parameter in e-chain?
Demand parameter is a function to segregate the forecast for specific sales order demand. The forecast can be attached to a demand parameter. If the same parameter is assigned to the sales order, then the sales order demand will consume the forecast which is linked with that demand parameter. |
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What all demand components are available within supply chain plan?
The demand components using within the supply chain plan are sales orders, forecasts and safety stock. The safety stock has the highest precedence and the need by date for the safety stock replenishment will be the plan run date. |
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What all supply components considered by the e-chain supply chain plan?
The supplies considered by e-chain supply chain plan includes: purchase orders, purchase requisitions, in-transits, quantity on hand, reserved quantity, allocated quantity, shop floor orders and inventory reservations. The quantity on hand has the highest precedence on considering for pegging with the demand. |
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What is the term "pegging" in e-chain supply chain plan?
e-chain uses the terminology "Pegging" to link the demand to the supply and vice versa. This function is carried out by the linear supply chain engine. |
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What is e-chain’s Spin plan?
Spin plan is used to plan for the spinning output in textile manufacturing. The input parameters for the plan are: machine data (no of spindles, grams per spindles and effective spindle speed), count information (required quantity of the counts needed). Based on these inputs, the plan back works the requirements of the quantity for the operations such as simplex, drawing, comb works, and carding. e-chain provides a sleek macro to handle the spin plan as part of e-chain Textile Manufacturing component. |
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What is frame master and counts?
Frame master in e-chain Textile manufacturing refers to the machines used for producing the counts (yarn grades). e-chain captures all the frame master details and count information required for production reporting. The reporting involves extensive 2000+ calculations to show the production and quality output data. The partial list of e-chain textile production reports includes: Daily yarn production report, Frame wise daily yarn production report, count wise calculated production report, Stoppage report (Group wise, avoidable and un-avoidable stoppages), Count wise loss / gain report and waste production report. |
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What is e-chain’s Hybrid Manufacturing model?
e-chain Shop floor management supports both discrete and process manufacturing. Some of process operations could be process in nature and the remaining operations could be discrete operations. Both the process and discrete operations can be modeled in the same facility and produced. e-chain produces against an unit of 1 for discrete and unit of X for process. e-chain can handle co-products and intermediates needed for process industries in its routing model. The component / ingredient allocation methods could be manual or pulled automatic at the time of product completion. |
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Does e-chain supports Tolling or Sub contracting?
e-chain supports tolling or sub contracting procedures. The tolling process can be implemented for partial or complete operations in the shop floor order. e-chain shows complete visibility of the raw materials / semi finished items sent to supplier for tolling operations. e-chain allows the tolling operations to be performed from multiple suppliers. We can model the products produced through tolling to be brought into shop floor order for further processing or it can be brought into inventory for further customer shipments. Challan 4(5)a report needed for excise can be produced. |
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What are the planning models supported in e-chain supply chain planning?
e-chain planning engine supports Unconstrained (infinite material and resource capacity), constraint based planning (material constrained, resource constrained or both). e-chain planning supports lot-for-lot, Master demand schedule (MDS), Forecasts, Demand time fence, planning time fence, and fixed lot multiplier. |
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Explain e-chain’s BOM Configurator.
e-chain supports Option type of BOM. When there are multiple options available for an assembly, the Engineers needs a framework to pick and choose the assemblies needed for creating the new design. This can be accomplished by defining the Option Bills of material and configuring the option BOM for creating the new structure. |
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How to mass component update on Bills of material and shop floor orders in e-chain?
We can use the Engineering change notice functionality to update the components on Bills of material and shop floor orders. One source item can be changed into multiple destination items. Only the released shop floor orders can be updated. |
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Does e-chain support Preventive and Breakdown maintenance?
e-chain supports preventive and breakdown maintenance schedules. We can create and manage the maintenance schedule. The maintenance schedule can be performed from the Maintenance workbench. The maintenance checklist parameters can be maintained. Check list can be created for all the parameters and assign the check list to the equipments using schedule workbench. |
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