Research On Building Of Material Basic Data In ERP For RC Company

How to build the Material Basic Data in ERP system for RC Company is the subject of this research. In this research, we try to figure out the way, and the steps by which we will build the Material Basic Data, as well as the content of these data. RC company will benefit a lot from a sophisticated Material Basic Data base, such as shortening the engineering time for products and therefore compressing the whole lead time for products delivery.First of all, we introduce that the newly built RC company plans to introduce ERP system as IT platform for its business administration. We figure out that the requirements of ERP system are that ERP system should be able to identify the material item, as well as its properties in the system, and a data model of product structure should be created, based on which the MRP module in ERP system could only run production plan for the company. In chapter2, we review theories and practice developed on content of and the way to build the Material Basic Data. After that we analyze the new requirements to enterprises imposed by concurrent changing market, we find the Material Basic Data built by existing way could not satisfy the production mode of MC well, which are implemented by enterprises to cope with fluctuating market situation. Then the new concept of Group Bill of Material (GBOM) is introduced for solution. According to this solution, the production design is divided into2stages, one is for creating Group Bill of Material for products in series and another is for engineering for product in order. Of course, the building of Material Basic Data should is based on real situation of the enterprise in subject, in Chapter3. the background of RC company, its product structure and the process they deployed to make the products are illustrated in certain level of details. Then in Chapter4and5, based on the way developed and the real situation in RC company, the practicing of building Material Basic Data is carried out, such as to categorize and code material item, to plan the records of attributes of material items, to create Group Bill of Material for typical product of RTG in series and to configure real instance of product for specific order base on GBOM created.In the final chapter, the whole process of materials basic data building for RC company is reviewed. Benefits for RC company brought with by the Material Basic Data built by the way figured out in this study are as follows. It shortens the lead time for product delivery and therefore brings about competitive edge for RC company. It is also pointed out that Material Basic Data actually is the connection of Technical Information System and Management Information System, such as ERP system. To informationize the whole process of production in RC company, it has set up the project of introducing Product Data Management system to standardize the way to build Material Basic Data further.