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Project
Name: Receiving Area Improvement for high-tech
company.
Problem:
The employees in the receiving area were going
through several unnecessary steps when receiving
products. The original steps were (1) Locate the
purchase order in one several thick notebooks
containing all company PO's. (2) Record the quantity
of products received, date, and initials. (3)
Copy the part number and other information to
a piece of paper. (4) Walk to the computer. (5)
Make the transaction in the Materials Resource
Planning (MRP) computer system to show the transaction.
Evaluation:
An initial evaluation of the process showed that
all the information being recorded on the paper
purchase orders was also being recorded in the
computer system. The only reason for the paper
system was to allow the employees to determine
the proper transaction code for the MRP computer
system.
Solution:
Themz.com designed a program that allowed the
receiving area employees to quickly lookup the
information needed and transfer the transaction
code to the MRP system. Benefits of the solution
included (1) elimination of the need for keeping
paper PO's in the receiving area and maintaining
a filing system for them (2) significantly faster
overall receipt times (3) fewer mistakes.
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