Your 6-Step Guide to Achieving Over 95% On-Time Delivery with Minimal Effort

Scheduling is one of the most challenging aspects of any job shop, contract manufacturer, OEM, or any manufacturer who is trying to coordinate hundreds or thousands of Work Orders to finish on-time, while keeping equipment utilization high and balanced. The ultimate goal is high factory throughput and as close to 100% On-Time Delivery as possible, with the minimum amount of human effort to manage these results. Both of these outcomes are possible and common with ProShop implementations.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE GUIDE

This guide will provide generic concepts to achieve those goals, as well as specific ways in which those concepts are architected in ProShop ERP and specific results customers have achieved by effectively using those functions of the software. It also shares best practices that may apply to settings and practices that can be utilized in any modern ERP. The first step of this process is to establish realistic baselines. Understanding baselines is required to have accuracy, which can result in a high estimate of actual delivery performance - even if those times are longer than customers will tolerate. The second step is to optimize and shorten the lead times as much as possible. This will result in a greater likelihood of actually hitting the short lead times that customers expect in today’s demanding environment.