Make to Order Planning

IFS/Dynamic Order Processing (DOP) is a make-to-order solution. The functionality involves configuration possibilities, pegging, and actual costing for customer orders, project activity, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and shop orders. Basically, all of the necessary components to build a final product are ordered for each customer order and managed/monitored by a DOP ID,  which is called Seiban in Japanese. In most make-to-order situations, the challenge is to confirm a delivery date that is both material and capacity checked. This must be done inside the order booking process. Once the order is confirmed, the handling is very similar to normal make-to-stock-planning. The method is widely used in different types of production and is characterized as follows:

• In general, the total lead time is rather long; however, it is easy to track the progress of the orders in a component by the DOP ID.
• The orders due for each component is defined by the DOP ID; therefore, it can easily be adjusted if necessary.
• Actual cost data is gathered by the DOP ID, and can be utilized for management purposes.

IFS/Dynamic Order Processing is highly integrated with material requirements planning (MRP) and customer order processing to provide more flexible ordering capability for each product based on its characteristics, as well as flexible and powerful management capability. It can very easily be applied to many different areas; engineer-to-order, make-to-order, assemble-to-order, and make-to-stock.

IFS/Dynamic Order Processing manages everything from flexible order structure creation, order release, order progress monitoring, and pegging to customer order and shipping. It is a part of IFS Manufacturing, but is also integrated with IFS Distribution, IFS Project Management and IFS Financials. IFS/Inventory is common to IFS Manufacturing and IFS Distribution. The components work together so that you can automatically create dynamic orders directly from a customer order in IFS Distribution or project activity in IFS Project Management, or create dynamic orders independently and peg them to customer orders when you need to do so.

Sub Processes to Make to Order Planning are:

• Create DOP Header Manually
• Create DOP Structure.
• Net DOP Order/Structure
• Perform CRP
• Generate DOP Alarms
• Maintain DOP Plan/Orders
• Release DOP Order
• Calculate and View DOP Cost
• Perform CBS

With these sub processes, you can:

• Define necessary basic data for dynamic order processing.
• Easily create an order structure and maintain it.
• Peg to customer order lines/project activities.
• Specify whether netting should be done for each DOP ID or DOP order; therefore, it is possible to control at the detail level.
• Net any excess DOP order and/or excess inventory
• Manually peg any existing supplies (shop orders/purchase orders) to DOP orders.
• Provide an efficient ordering capability by integrating with MRP and customer order processing.
• Monitor the progress by DOP ID, making it possible to take proper action in time.
• Calculate standard, estimated, and actual cost by each DOP ID.