High-level management of quantities
Tracking production progress per set quantity targets is one of many ways for managing production. It's suitable when production times for manufactured products are either similar or identical, which allows clumping together the various products and using the quantity target benchmark to track production targets. For example, cream cheese. Cream-cheese products come with different fat percentages, but this doesn't impact the time it takes to fill the cheese containers. Another scenario for using quantity targets is when the product is the same and produced in bulk.
The Quantity Targets Management tool provides all the options for setting quantity targets. What you configure there is then tracked and visualized as easy-to-follow infographics in the production floor's Production Progress dashboard.
Configuring quantity targets
Go to Targets Management > Quantity Targets.
Choose the time range type you want to set the quantities for:
Shift
Day
Week
Month
For each time range type you have different configuration options.
Shift: you can choose to set targets for specific shifts, or for all shifts. Set also which shift days. For example, if your site works 5 days a week, Monday to Friday, you would clear the check boxes of Saturday and Sunday for each shift.
Day: you can choose to set either:
Recurring daily targets, or
Targets for each day of the week, or
Targets for specific dates.
Week: you can choose to set recurring weekly targets, or you can choose to set targets for specific weeks.
Month: you can choose to set recurring monthly targets, or set targets for specific months.
NOTE: Planning scope is for a year from current point in time.
If you choose the generic setting (daily, weekly, monthly, or all shifts), the quantity targets remain in effect until changed.
Click Apply.
NOTE: The last applied change adjusts all other time ranges' target quantities. Meaning that if you set quantity targets per the Month time range level, the quantity targets set for the Month time range level are those that apply (overwrite any previous settings) and these quantity targets will be reflected in Day level targets by dividing the month's target to days, in Week level targets by dividing the month's target to weeks, and in Shift level targets by dividing the month's target to shifts.
For example, if you set a quantity target of 7000 for the Week time range, let's say 7000 thousand units per week, and then choose to display the Month time range, the quantity target adjusts automatically per the weekly benchmark that was applied, so for monthly it would be ~30K units.Click the factory level icon
to present the site hierarchy:
Factory > Departments > Machines.
By default all departments and machines are included in the quantity targets measurements.
Clear the checkboxes of specific departments and/or machines to exclude them from quantity targets measurements.
Tracking production progress per target quantities
Web app
Go to Production Floor > All Machines > Production Progress.
Click the Settings menu control.
In the Calculated By section scroll down to Set Quantity:
Quantity target per set period - The dashboard presents production so far compared to the target quantities for the entire period (yesterday, last week, last 7 days, last 14 days, last 28 days, custom time span).
Current performance relative to quantity target - The dashboard presents production so far compared to the expected target units for this point in time per the set quantity targets.
Close the Settings menu.
View machines' production progress that's based on quantity target benchmarks.
Manager app
Tap factory > department.
Tap the Progress tab.
Tap the settings icon and in the Calculated by options, scroll down to Set Quantity.
Choose either option:
Quantity target per set period - The dashboard presents production so far compared to the target quantities for the entire period (yesterday, last week, last 7 days, last 14 days, last 28 days, custom time span).
Current performance relative to quantity target - The dashboard presents production so far compared to the expected target units for this point in time per the set quantity targets.
Close the settings menu.
Expand the department to view machines' production progress that's based on quantity target benchmarks.
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