Advanced Planning and Scheduling

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Hi Lee,
I am in the process of trying to implement eScheduling now. The first thing
we found, was that we have a lot of cleaning up to do in Vantage. Production
has been real lax in making sure that operations were completed properly, in
the system, and we also found many orders that have been waiting (in some
cases years) for Proof approvals to come back. We have not done a good job
of keeping the information in Vantage Clean and current. We also found that
there are many operation standards that need to be addressed, in order for
eSchedule to be of any use. In our case, there is much preliminary work to
be done. I've taken the eScheduling class and understand the theory behind
the program. It's quite impressive. Whether we can make it work effectively
or not, has yet to be determined. If resources will allow, I would highly
reccommend the services of Kevin Rosell from Epicor. Kevin is well versed in
eScheduling, as well as having much knowledge of Vantage and manufacturing
processes. I understand that he will only be doing customer sites, through
this summer.

Regards,

Les Tingley
MIS
Decorated Products

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Ingalls [SMTP:eli3@...]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:00 AM
> To: Vantage user forum
> Subject: [Vantage] Advanced Planning and Scheduling
>
>
> Good Morning Colleagues,
>
> Looking for feedback from those of you who have experience with
> eScheduling
> (Advanced Planning and Scheduling)... the add-on module to Visual
> Scheduling.
>
> Thanks in advance, Lee
>
> E. Lee Ingalls III
> Information Technologies
> Commercial Tool & Die, Inc.
> (p) 616.785.8100
> (f) 616.785.8210
>
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Well I know you, and excited is an understatement. (Good guy though, with a
great old truck) Glad to see you on the list, Gordon. Also glad to see that
I'm not the only one that's a little slow in warming up to the new bi-di
APS, eScheduling, or whatever it's being called this month. I am hoping for
(actually praying for) good things from this version. The last thing I need
is a program feeding more trash into the Vantage systgem.That's what we have
employees for... : )

Les Tingley
MIS
Decorated Products

> -----Original Message-----
> From: suki0112358 [SMTP:gsukeforth@...]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:53 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Advanced Planning and Scheduling
>
> Hello:
> We have been using APS for some time. Our current working
> system is Release 3.0c Build 1 which brings in jobs and status from
> Vantage thru sql using an interface program called DataSync.
> We have also installed Version 5.0 build 88 and I am in the
> process of testing that. Whereas Release 3.0 is uni-directional,
> (taking information from vantage but not sending it back) Version 5.0
> is bi-directional. Version 5 sends data to APS from Vantage using
> XML. Certain events in Vantage trigger this process. Information
> is pulled into Vantage from APS as a 'batch' process which must be
> initiated by the user.
> This bi-directionality thing is our current stumbling block. I
> do my schedule as forward scheduling/finite capacity. This allows
> some jobs to show a finish time beyond the customer want date. Also,
> because I use finite capacity settings on most of my workcenters,
> there are no 'over-loaded' workcenters. This works fine for me. I
> adjust the schedule by off-loading or changing workcenters until I
> have no late jobs. (late jobs are easy to identify in APS.) The
> problem comes from what I will call the 'second look'.
> APS is one way to look at the capacity/load/schedule picture.
> Currently, Vantage furnishes us with another look at this picture
> because, in our current set-up, APS and Vantage are not bi-
> directionally integrated.
> When (with version 5) we start pulling information into Vantage
> from APS, capacity, load, and schedule will be the same in both
> systems. Before we do this we are going to find another way to look
> at this information so we can continue to have the 'second look'.
> Sorry this is so long. I think APS is a great system, tons of
> features designed by people who really knew scheduling. And I do tend
> to get a little excited, ask anyone who knows me. I will stop now.
> Feel free to contact me if you want to.
>
> :gordon
> GSukeforth@...
>
>
> --- In vantage@y..., "Lee Ingalls" <eli3@c...> wrote:
> >
> > Good Morning Colleagues,
> >
> > Looking for feedback from those of you who have experience with
> eScheduling
> > (Advanced Planning and Scheduling)... the add-on module to Visual
> Scheduling.
> >
> > Thanks in advance, Lee
> >
> > E. Lee Ingalls III
> > Information Technologies
> > Commercial Tool & Die, Inc.
> > (p) 616.785.8100
> > (f) 616.785.8210
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must
> have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
> (1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
> Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
> (2) To search through old msg's goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
> (3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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