Manufacturing enterprises have ERP, why do we need MES?

today, manufacturing companies face tight economic and competitive pressures: less profit, more tight delivery times, shorter production cycles, and more complex products. Most companies are already using ERP systems, they will think: I have used the ERP, why also need MES (manufacturing execution system)? `

In fact, manufacturing companies in all industries need to manage business process information in a consolidated ERP system or from multiple IT systems that incorporate spreadsheets. Many of the typical areas of these systems require special attention: sales, Finance, purchasing/purchasing, warehousing, human resources, quality management and production planning, and so on.

In many manufacturing companies, the main costs in the production value chain are not reflected in detail and transparently. More importantly, many of the target data in production areas that are normally maintained in ERP systems or electronic forms are all estimated in assumptions or past experience.

There is only a limited IT system in the field of the workshop, and these systems are usually guided by mechanical control and automation, or there is no IT system at all, so there must be additional management staff, spend extra time, for unnecessary communication, contact, engagement, telephone consultation, produce a lot of documents, time delay, find, Additional costs are added. The high level of management (ERP, APS, E-forms, etc.) creates a gap between the lower-level workshop environment, resulting in inefficiencies and additional costs, thus reducing overall company performance.

Commonly encountered problems

1, the feedback data of the workshop (equipment running time, stagnation time, production capacity, scrap reason, utilization and production efficiency, efficiency, etc.) how reliable?
2, the bottom of the workshop data feedback and high-level ERP system data recognition between the number of delays in the end?
3, which is the real labor cost (man day, hours) need to provide to the upper level of the ERP system?
4. Why do we still have so many delivery time problems, even though we are not running at full capacity?
5. Why do we not have the expected revenue even though we are producing at full capacity and have the best turnover?
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The answer to these gaps is mes!. The standard and modular MES is the coordination information system between the workshop and the high-level ERP system, which provides the transparency of the information of the workshop which is not usually provided by the ERP system, and provides a reliable data interface for connecting the upper management system (such as ERP) and the bottom workshop (operation terminal and equipment).

By reducing the impact of negative processes and continuously monitoring your results, the complete process will be improved to the maximum extent possible. These will be converted into improved utilization, power and efficiency, and so on, reduce production costs, and gradually improve the value of output efficiency, and finally get higher profits!

The specific benefits that MES systems bring to the enterprise are as follows

1, accurately grasp the production situation, improve delivery accuracy, rationalize the distribution of logistics in the factory, to achieve production, supply and marketing cooperation;
2, the correct grasp in the number of products, and poor product tracking, reduce the production cost of products;
3, barcode and RFID tracking product serial number, collect complete information and process quality information, improve the level and satisfaction of product after-sales service;
4, timely response to quality issues, tracking quality history, improve product quality;
5, Reduce manual statistics and manual reporting, improve the productivity of on-site management personnel;
6, fully grasp the use of tools, equipment and other uses, manufacturing resources to do effective use.

Mes originates from the management requirements of manufacturing plant managers, adopt a new concept design, based on B/s structure can be easily deployed, less reliance on basic data, low requirement for initial management level of enterprise, simple and easy to operate system, support user industry customization, support personalized system integration scheme design. Mes advocates that enterprises follow the lean production model, through the data analysis of the system to achieve the goal of continuous improvement of lean, it helps manager managers can easily and scientifically control the production dynamics on the keyboard.

Manufacturing enterprises have ERP, why do they need mes?