Information Systems- MANUFACTURING IS

Input transaction documents

• Production programme
• Production schedule
• Process planning sheet
• Job card
• Job status advice
• Quality assurance rating form
• Finished goods advice
• Breakdown advice
• Material requirement
• Material requisition 
• Customer order

Data from Accounting

•  Quantity of production with respect to a time period
•  Material requirement and usage
•  Rejection quantity at each stage
•  Breakdown incidence
•  Labour completement wrt  period
•  Use of power fuel and consumables
•  Machine and facilities utilization
•  Labour hours

Queries Handled

•  Status of the job or order in terms of level of completion
•  Production program and job schedules
•  Load status on machine, group of machines
•  Status on availability of machines
• Information on machine and tool specification
•  Information on skills and capabilities of each worker
• Info on products and process 

The manufacturing IS is required for making numerous decisions some of the typical uses are as follows

•  Make or buy
•  Make or subcontract
•  Use of alternative material
•  Use of alternative process
•  Evolving optimum product mix/ job mix
•  Rescheduling and loading of jobs
•  Planning and scheduling of jobs
•  Selection of production facilities
• Selection of alternative maintenance policies

 Controls used to highlight exceptions in the system

•  Excessive product rejection on account of material and/or process
•  Hold up of key jobs beyond a certain limit
•  Excessive work in process inventory
•  Continued breakdown of the manufacturing facility beyond a certain period
•  Utilisation of key facilities beyond a limit
•  Continuous significant deviation from standards or norms of production rate
•  Backlog of large number of orders and failure to meet promised delivery date

Reports
Statutory compliance – some industries need to submit account of raw and finished goods to govt
Information update
Operations Update – production per day, rejections, machine breakdown and job completed
Decision analysis- optimum product mix, alternate loading pattern, alternate assignment of jobs and machines..etc
Action Update- provide information update on post implementation scenario of decisions