Production execution method

• US 5,283,745 A
• Filed: 12/05/1990
• Issued: 02/01/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: KAO Corporation
• Original Assignee: KAO Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Nobuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Jerry
• Assistant Examiner(s): Garland, Steven R.
• Application Number:
  US07/622,560
• Time in Patent Office: 1,154 Days
• Field of Search: 364/478, 364/401, 364/403, 364/478, 364/479, 364/468
• US Class Current: 700/99
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

A production execution method of the present invention includes the steps of storing in a storage facility at least one kind of material, among various kinds of material used to produce desired goods, calculating a producible quantity of goods based on an already procured quantity or already stocked quantity of the various kinds of material using a calculation processor, and deciding a quantity equal to or below the producible quantity as a production execution quantity. Thereafter, the production executing quantity is set by being divided into two or more smaller quantities wherein a required quantity of the material is then taken out from the storage facility for each set quantity for each setting so that production of the decided production execution quantity of goods can be executed in sequence.

Claims

1. A production execution method comprising the steps of:

storing in a storage facility at least one kind of material among various kinds of material used to produce goods, each of the various kinds of material being stored in respective unit loads of plural cases;

calculating a producible quantity of the goods based on an already procured quantity or already stocked quantity of the various kinds of material using calculation means;

selecting a desired quantity equal to or less than the producible quantity as a production execution quantity of the goods;

setting the production execution quantity by dividing it into two or more smaller quantities; and

taking out a required quantity of the various kinds of material by removing from the storage facility the least amount of unit loads required to begin production of one of the divided smaller quantities of the production execution quantity of the goods in sequence, the least amount being determined by the calculation means.

2. A production execution method for producing a product from various goods comprising the steps of:

storing the various goods in a storage facility in respective unit loads of plural cases;

calculating in calculation means a producible quantity of the product in accordance with a presently procured quantity or presently stocked quantity of the various goods;

selecting a desired quantity of the product to be produced which is less than or equal to the producible quantity of the product;

setting a production quantity of the product by dividing the desired quantity of the product into first and second smaller quantities;

the calculation means, subsequent to said step of setting, determining the required number of cases of the various goods needed to produce the first and second smaller quantities of the product;

removing the various goods from the storage facility by respective unit loads such that the least amount of unit loads of the various goods needed to produce the first smaller quantity of the product are removed; and

producing the first smaller quantity of the product using the removed various goods.

3. The production execution method of claim 2, further comprising the steps of:

removing the various goods from the storage facility by respective unit loads during said first smaller quantity producing step such that the least amount of unit loads of the various goods needed to produce the second smaller quantity of the product are removed; and

producing the second smaller quantity of the product using the removed various goods.

4. The production execution method of claim 2, wherein said setting step comprises selecting the first smaller quantity to be smaller than the second smaller quantity.

5. The production execution method of claim 2, wherein said setting step comprises selecting the first smaller quantity such that the number of respective unit loads for each of the various goods removed during said removing steps in one unit load.

6. The production execution method of claim 2, wherein during said calculation step, the calculation means displays the presently procured quantity or presently stocked quantity of the various goods, wherein a particular one of the various goods which is common to all different types of products is indicated and a particular one of the various goods which is of shortest supply is also indicated.

7. The production execution method of claim 6, wherein the common good is indicated by an asterisk when displayed and the good of shortest supply is indicated by red highlighting when displayed.