Manufacturing Data Master Files: Review content and use of data files to verify consistency with standard BPCS files and uses. Identify areas of concern and any implications for planning, shop floor control, costing, or other system applications.

Planning: Analyze the current flow of demand and supply data, to identify any missing or disconnected elements.

• Demand Planning- Incorporation of forecast, distribution and customer demand into overall demand estimates
• Master Scheduling- Finished goods planning and planning of major subassemblies
• Material Requirements Planning- Planning of minor subassemblies and fabricated or purchased components and materials
• Capacity Management- Comparison of available vs. required labor and/or machine capacity
• Other site specific requirements

Shop Floor Scheduling and Control: Define and analyze current methods of communication and feedback between the shop floor and shop scheduling, as well as inventory control and accounting.

• Shop order release and initial dispatch. Includes prior review of capacity and materials, as well as potential lot identification and assignment
• Material allocation and issue. Includes several factors:
  • Potential for lot control and traceability, as well as implications to shop order material control, allocation, and issue
  • Material allocation and/or back-flushing options, including “point of use” and kitting
  • Material issue options
• Shop order reporting:
  • Operation completions
  • Time reporting
• Shop order completion and close
• Other site specific requirements

Purchase of Manufacturing Components and Materials: Evaluate the ability of current purchasing procedures to support frequent changes and requirements in the production schedule.

Time-consuming processes around month-end close, year-end close, AP matching, invoicing, account reconciliation, vendor payments, tax compliance, and more can weigh down a Finance team. Your business and your customers’ needs have changed and you are in a constant battle to keep up. It's hard to know which area to tackle first and where the greatest impact can be made.

Financial Data Master Files: Review content and use of data files to verify consistency with standard BPCS files and uses. Identify areas of concern and any implications in the setup of Models and Events and the use of Reason Codes and Macroable Events, as well as other system applications and system parameters.

Vendor Transaction Management: Analyze the current flow of invoice data, to identify any missing or disconnected elements including areas for improvement.

• 3 Way match- Customer specific requirements, organizational requirements, user specific setup, entry validation
• Expense invoices- Analyze and validate the process
• Recurring payments- Analyze and validate the process
• Payment process- Analyze and validate the process
• Other site specific requirements

Cash Management: Analyze the current flow of cash receipts data, to identify any missing or disconnected elements including areas for improvement.

• Customer payments- Customer specific requirements, organizational requirements, user specific setup, entry validation
• Write-off's- Analyze and validate the process
• Credits and deductions: Analyze and validate the process

Supply Chain Data Master Files: Review content and use of data files to verify consistency with standard BPCS files and uses. Identify areas of concern and any implications for the order to invoicing business cycle as well as other system applications and system parameters.

Customer Order Management: Analyze the current flow of order data to identify any missing or disconnected elements including areas for improvement.

• Order Processing- Customer specific requirements, organizational requirements, user specific setup, entry validation
• Order Picking- Analyze and validate the process
• Pick Confirmation- Analyze and validate the process
• Ship Confirmation- Analyze and validate the process
• Customer Drop Shipments- Validate setup and processing
• Other site specific requirements

Resupply Order Management: Analyze the current flow of data to identify missing or disconnected elements.

• Customer setup for warehouse relationships
• Address Master setup
• System parameters
• Resupply specific transactional setup for inventory management as well as finance

Billing: Analyze the current flow of data to identify missing or disconnected elements including areas for improvement. Also, analyze and validate system parameters.

Promotions and Deals: Analyze and validate pricing strategy setup as it relates to Sales Order Processing, Accounts Receivable, Billing, and Sales Analysis.

• System parameter setup
• Customer order processing for pricing
• Validation and analysis of:
  • Customer Master
  • Pricing and promotion master files
  • Charge and allowance files

Inventory Management: Define and analyze current methods of communication and feedback between customer order management, as well as inventory control and accounting.

• Material allocation and issue. Includes several factors:
  • Potential for lot control and traceability, as well as implications to customer order allocations
  • Material allocation requirements for customer orders
• Other site specific requirements

Purchasing Management: Evaluate the ability of current purchasing procedures to support frequent changes and requirements in regards to customer order management.

Sales Analysis: Evaluate reporting requirements and insure that current setups can support these requirements.

Businesses across all industries rely on IT infrastructure, whether it be servers, ancillary equipment, or the communication that ties everything together. These systems are vital to your core processes, which is why an inopportune failure of any one of them is a cause for concern. Rather than being left to improvise when your critical support systems are not working when you need them the most, Crossroads RMC offers IBM i Infrastructure Performance Evaluation and Support. Through this offering, you’ll have the benefit of a complete system evaluation, a pre-established monitoring schedule and proactive evaluation and recommendation of system resources to ensure maximum uptime for your system.

Initial System Performance Assessment: Crossroads will document the current IBM i system configuration/topology. The deliverable from the evaluation will be a document that defines the current high-level system execution and sets the scope of the IBM i system that will be supported under the Agreement for the current term. A Crossroads consultant will access the system on a predetermined schedule set forth and mutually agreed upon by both parties as part of the engagement review.

• Set up remote console for remote system access
• System Admin:
  • PTF review and updates
  • User access
  • Save/Restore
  • Security
  • IPL – Monthly on a weekend or off hours
• Monitor and advise on the following:
  • DASD & Memory utilization
  • System Error Messages
  • User Access Needs
  • Joblogs
  • Output Queues
  • Device Configurations
  • Communications
  • System Performance

Technical assistance via remote access (VPN or as otherwise mutually agreed) to resolve system issues. All activities will take place remotely.

Assistance with and recommendation(s) related to system administration for Client’s IBM i server.