Help Needed for Getting Started with Frepple, how to setup Frepple for a Batch Manufacturing?

[Aditya Duggal]

Hi Community,

This is my first time I have come across frepple and today I just started to play around with it with the great documentation which is there at freeple docs, but I must that a newbie like me would always have questions regarding the first few tiny steps to take towards implementation of frepple. First of all I would like to give a brief history of my organisational requirement as below:

1. We are currently using ERPNext for the past 10 years for Sales Orders booking and inventory management (I think for that ERPNext is doing a great job).
2. We have around 10,000 item codes for items that we manufacture.
3. Some items are processed 1 pc at a time on a machine and some items are processed in a LOT size that is depended on the machine and size.
4. Basically our production is followed in process like PROCESS1 ===> PROCESS2 ===> PROCESS3 and so on with multiple machines (I think it's called resources in frepple)

Now my questions are many and I would try and be clear about them:

1. Can we track which machine (or resource) manufactured X or Y item on a particular date and which employee did that as a part of report
2. Or is frepple only for managing the production plan and the actual production times are not managed.
3. I have uploaded 1 item (finished-item) and 1 item (raw material) and along with that I have uploaded all the Sales Orders in the past 7-8 years for this item but still I am unable to see any basic analytics on this item as how much should be produced etc.
4. How should I go about setting up the processes, the problem is that I am unable to understand as to how to setup the process 1 should it be a single process or should process 2 be used as a sub-process of Process1 since process 2 should start only after process 1 is completed.

I would also like to apologies for such silly questions since I have no prior experience in tracking production and its planning since currently we are mainly doing fire fighting in our organisation and in general there is no production plan for such items.

[Johan De Taeye]

Hi,

>> 1. Can we track which machine (or resource) manufactured X or Y item on a particular date and which employee did that as a part of report
>> 2. Or is frepple only for managing the production plan and the actual production times are not managed.

FrePPLe is about planning for the future activities.
What actually happens/happened is the job for your ERP system.

>> 3. I have uploaded 1 item (finished-item) and 1 item (raw material) and along with that I have uploaded all the Sales Orders in the past 7-8 years for this item but still I am unable to see any basic analytics on this item as how much should be produced etc.

If you need the demand forecasting capabilities, you’ll need to use the Cloud Edition or Enterprise Edition.
The open source Community Edition doesn’t have this module.

>> 4. How should I go about setting up the processes, the problem is that I am unable to understand as to how to setup the process 1 should it be a single process or should process 2 be used as a sub-process of Process1 since process 2 should start only after process 1 is completed.

See https://frepple.com/docs/4.4/user-guide/modeling-wizard/concepts.php which introduces the concepts of operations.
To model your process you can choose:

-          Either model the intermediate materials and buffers between the processes.

-          Either use an operation of type “routing” with each process as a suboperation.

Regards,

 

Johan De Taeye

Mob: +32 477.385.362

Skype: jdetaeye

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