Inventory Resource Management: Tasks (Level 3)
- Providing personnel, material and equipment resource definitions
- Shall the MES provide definitions of materials, equipment and personnel?
- How are they named?
- Are unique notations available?
- For which products (mapping)?
- Which resource parameters have to be defined?
- Who maintains these resource definitions?
- In which system are they maintained?
- Are interfaces necessary?
- How ist he transfer to be carried out?
- Providing information on resource capability (committed, available, or unattainable)
- Shall the MES provide information on availability of resources (committed, available, or unattainable)?
- Who shall receive the information?
- What is the update cycle of such information?
- Managing stock sizes and using other means to control the amount of inventory
- Shall the MES manage and control stock sizes?
- Which systems contain or need information on stock sizes?
- Is a central system available?
- Which information for a warehouse / bin location shall be managed?
- How is the data management distributed between ERP and MES?
- Ensuring that requests for acquisition of resources to meet future capabilities are initiated
- Shall the MES ensure that requirements on resource supply to ensure future demands are initiated?
- How and in which system are demands generated?
- Is the process defined?
- Ensuring that equipment is available for the assigned tasks
- Where shall be stored which devices are suitable for which tasks?
- Based on which criteria?
- Providing information on the location of resources and assignment of resources to areas
- Are the logistic transportation processes automated?
- Shall the MES manage or provide information for other systems on location of resources and their assignment to working areas?
- Collecting information on the current state of personnel, equipment and material resources
- Shall the MES manage the current status of resources?
- Which status information shall be managed?
- What shall the status information be used for?
- Which state of status information shall be used?
- Shall the MES visualize the current state of resources?
- Maintaining personnel qualification test information
- Shall the MES manage information on staff qualification?
- What shall the qualification information be used for?
- Maintaining equipment capability test information
- Shall the MES manage information on equipment capability (possible applications and technical limitations)?
- Shall the MES manage information and/or results on inspections regulated by law?
- What shall the capability information be used for?
- Managing reservations for future use of resources
- Shall the MES manage reservations for future use of resources
- Shall the resource management be part of rough-cut planning or detailed scheduling?
