List of Sidebars

Chapter 2: Distribution Items and Purchased Material

Purchasing Lead-Time and Capable-to-Promise Logic

Use of Location Information for a Single-Site Company

Chapter 3: Manufactured Items

By-Products and a Negative Component Quantity

Identifying Planned Manufacturing Scrap

Copying a Bill of Material

Production Lead-Time and Capable-to-Promise Logic

Methods for Establishing Direct Linkage Between Production Orders and a Sales Order

Chapter 4: Sales and Operations Planning

Statistical Forecasting and Demand Planning

Use of a Manually Maintained Master Schedule for Stocked Items

S&OP for Partially Defined Make-to-Order Products

Business Analytics and S&OP

Chapter 5: Sales Order Processing

Other Types of Sales Order Line Items

Business Analytics and Sales Analysis

Chapter 6: Purchase Order Processing

Other Types of Purchase Order Line Items

Rules for Using Inbound Biztalk Documents

Methods for Creating a Purchase Order

Chapter 8: Production Order Processing

Gantt Chart Format for a Production Schedule

Chapter 9: Multisite Operations

System Implications for a Multisite Company

Transfer Lead-Time and Capable-to-Promise Logic