[AccessD] planning

John:

Gratuitous sales pitch:  E-Z-MRP might do the whole job for him - 
configuration management through the Bill of materials processor, inventory 
control, production and procurement planning and execution, and of course, 
capacity planning.

But barring that, let me know if I can help you with the capacity planning 
problem.

Regards,

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Johncliviger at aol.com>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] planning


> Hi Rocky
>
> Thank you for those comments. It put the problems much more clearly.   How
> this job started was that a client of mine running a small manufacturing 
> plant
> started using MS Project to schedule his production line and  when there 
> was
> spare capacity in production it seemed to work. But now  demand has 
> increased
> 30/40% so spare capacity has gone and bottlenecks are  poping up.
>
> His immediate question is how many new staff do I need to meet demand and
> what is my maximum production capacity and how does that vary from planned
> Production capacity?
>
> I don't think that I can tinker with Project and give him the reports he
> wants.  So I'm now looking at how to give him some  good news on a 
> temporary
> solution. Hence the question on capacity  Planning.
>
> I may go the whole hog and suggest a piece of software designed for  the 
> job
> but not yet.
>
> Once again Rocky thank you for you comments
>
>
> John C
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