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At noon one day, my husband called at home: "dear wife, can I bring some colleagues home for dinner at night ?" (Order intention)

Wife: "Of course. How many people are there? What kind of food do you want to eat ?"

Husband: "six people, we will be back around to prepare some wine, roast duck, tomato scrambled eggs, cold dishes, egg soup ....... Can you see it ?" (Business Communication)

Wife: "No problem. I will prepare it ." (Order confirmation)

The wife records the menus (MPS Plan) to be prepared: Duck, wine, tomato, eggs, spices ...... (BOM material list): 1 duck egg, 5 bottles of wine, 4 eggs ...... (BOM expansion). It requires 6 eggs for scrambled eggs and 4 eggs for egg soup (shared materials ).

Open the refrigerator and check (warehouse). There are only 2 eggs left (out of stock ).

When I came to the free market, my wife said, "How can I sell eggs ?" (Procurement inquiry)

Hawker: "1 yuan, 5 yuan for half a dozen, 9.5 yuan for one dozen ."

Wife: "I only need eight, but this time I bought one dozen ." (Economical batch procurement)

Wife: "This is a bad one, for another ." (Acceptance, return and exchange)

Go home and prepare for washing, cutting and cooking ...... (Process line), the kitchen has a gas stove, microwave oven, rice cooker ...... (Work Center ).

My wife found that it was the most time-consuming (bottleneck process and key process routes) to use a microwave oven to cook roast duck by herself (insufficient production capacity ), as a result, the reading room was bought as ready-made (out-of-service) in the restaurant downstairs ).

At four o'clock P.M., I received a call from my son: "Mom, I want to come to dinner at night. Please help me prepare ." (Urgent order)

"Okay, what do you want to eat? Dad has guests at night. Would you like to eat with them ?"

"You can do it, but you must have tomato scrambled eggs. We will not eat it with adults. We will return around ." (Cannot be handled separately)

"Okay, you must be satisfied ." (Order confirmation)

"I don't want to buy any eggs. I called the store to send them ." (Urgent procurement)

At, everything was ready, but the roast duck had not been delivered yet. He hurriedly called and asked, "I am Li Tai. Why didn't I order the roast duck ?" (Procurement outsourcing ticket Reminder)

"Sorry, the shipping person has already left. It may be a traffic jam. It will arrive immediately ."

The doorbell rings.

"Mrs Li, this is your roast duck. Sign one word on the ticket ." (Acceptance, warehouse receiving, transfer to account payable)

At, my daughter called: "Mom, can I bring some friends home for dinner now ?" (Oh, it's an urgent order intention, and the spot is required)

"No, daughter. Today, Mom needs to prepare two meals. It is too late. I am really sorry. I will say it later and I will be ready for you ." (Haha, This is the limitation of ERP usage. A stable external environment is required, and a minimum advance period is required ).

...... ......

After all the guests were sent away, the tired wife sat on the sofa and said to her husband, "dear, we have a very high frequency of buying kitchen supplies (equipment purchase ), it is best to hire another nanny (even the HR system has a gap ).

Husband: "You are the master at home. You can do whatever you need ." (Approved)

Wife: "also, my family has spent too much money recently. I will use your private room money to subsidize it, OK ?" (Finally, the reminder for receivables)

Does anyone understand ERP? Remember, every qualified housewife is a strong competitor of the production director.