Holistic database for management of data including operational metrics

Mika Aho Seppo Orsila Modulight, Inc. Holistic database for management of data including operational metrics

Outline
Brief company presentation
System integration methods and benefits
How to integrate to commercial ERP and CRM using industry standard components and tools?
Modulight information system structure
Benefits and example applications
Towards a true eEnterprise
Summary

Modulight, Inc.
Privately held company with offices in Finland & Bay area
Product lines: High-Power lasers, Transmitter lasers and Custom products
Applications: Industry, communication, medical, space, defense

System integration architectures ERP CRM MES PDM General Ledger EDI Point-to-point (commercial systems) ERP CRM MES PDM General Ledger EDI Integration (smart way) n*(n-1) connections 6 connections

How to integrate ?
What is this all about?
Transferring information between different systems
Transforming the information
What is needed?
Interfaces
Interpretation

One information system structure MES ERP Production equipment Extranet CRM EDI Logistics Employees www.modulight.com Intranet MLDB Partners Customers Suppliers Strategy and planning Manufacturing R&D Sales Marketing Finance

Contents
Brief company presentation
System integration methods
Modulight information system structure
Example applications
Summary

Full traceability
We would like to know:
Who, what, when, using what machine manufactured a part we shipped three years ago?
Order was for 10 Gb/s FP laser chips and 1310 nm FP 2.5Gb/s laser chips
Sample lot size 50 pcs
Two deliveries

Full traceability, cont.

Invoice allocation
Enables significant internal (cost) accounting accuracy
See product costing from different perspectives
No manual work needed, same benefits for 10 and 10000 invoices

Invoice allocation MES ERP Dynamic and static rules Account (group) Input Input Production equipment
Equipment time
Materials
Effective working time
Batch size
40*0.7 = 28% PRO Project A 40*0.3 = 12% PRO Project B 20*0.7 = 14 % PDE Project A What to allocate? Where to allocate? How often? How to allocate? E.g. allocate: 40% to PRO 20% to PDE 40% to QUA and 70% to Project A 30% to Project B

Benefits
Improved accuracy and speed in data entry and decision-making
Use Activity Based Cost (ABC) to determine the true cost of product
What are indirect costs?
What resources makes costs?
Quickly drill-down product costing and see it from different perspectives
Product pricing, manufacturing scheduling, cost analysis, detailed high-level forecasting
Rapid change management

Activity Based Costing Kustannusten jakaminen MES ERP Dynamic and static rules Dynamic changes (automatic) Allocation engine Input Production equipment Static changes (user defined) Reports, views ... Project allocation Departmental alloc. Product allocation ABC Analysis Input Input Input Reports, views, embedded data...

Chip final inspection MES Production equipment Product specifications, parameters, measurement data... Production technician

Product datasheets, reports.. MES Product specifications, parameters, measurement data... Production equipment Production technician

Website MES Product specifications, parameters, measurement data... Production equipment Production technician

Just a few Intranet functions Manage production Interact with customers View production statistics Manage personnel

Effective tool in eBusiness
Semiautomated process from RFQ to delivery and customer feedback
CRM ERP MES MLDB RFQ PO Quotation Delivery Activity Production

Summary
Integration and adoption are challenging and time-consuming, but leads to
agility
profitability
customer focus
reliability
Resources to creative work
IT systems part of business process development
“ If a company's systems are fragmented, its business is fragmented” Prof. Thomas Davenport

Thank you! Authors wish to acknowledge Finnish Technology Development Centre (TEKES) for support of this work [email_address] [email_address]

Holistic database for management of data including operational metrics

by Mika Aho on Feb 17, 2009

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