Product Data Management

Flight Leaders:

Bruce Thompson & Joe Hau, Senior Consultants – WorkWise, Inc.

These sessions focus on the importance of current and accurate information within Product Data Management – the heart of your TCM database

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS:

Understanding TCM Product Classifiers

 Review of key data fields on the Item Master including Product Category, Cost Category, Stocked, Controlled, Attributes (new in v8.3), Order Policy, Tracking Options.

Session Presenter:  Bruce Thompson

 Using Cycle Counting  and Physical Inventory in TCM

This session will focus on setting up cycle coutning using either TCM core functions or eWarehouse. Also, we’ll discuss the steps for doing a Physical Inventory.

Session Presenter:  Joe Hau

Outside Processing Data Requirements

Setting up data in TCM to support the Outside Processing function

Session Presenter: Joe Hau

KanBan Setup

This session will focus on Lean Manufacturing Initiatives – specifically, setting up data in TCM for Kanban Items.

Session Presenter:  Steve Johannes

TCM Product Configuration

Why Use Product Configuration? What are the Modules? How does it work in TCM ? Find out in this session.

Session Presenter: Chester Delvaux

Advanced Data Mining Techniques

This session will not only offer some insight to and examples of the many tools available that mine data from TCM such as RBW’s, .Net Queries and Reports, GBI, Excel, Crystal, and SSRS, but also will preface this discussion with a primer on the TCM Data Base Structure. It is critical that the user of any of these tools understand how the TCM data is grouped and connected in order to obtain the desired results, and avoid frustration.

Session Presenter: Bill Kautz and Harry Mosesian

TCM Workbench Security and Setup

Learn about how the Role-based Workbenches have a new security features that permit controlling the visibility and access to the forms and girdlists across all of the workbenches as well as the .Net forms that are launched from the TCM Navigator.

Session Presenter: Dick Grelck

TCM Business Performance

This session previews the Business Performance Workbench (BPWB) which is to be part of the next release of TCM. The BPWB provides the ability to monitor and analyze key data concerning the performance of the manufacturing enterprise from several major viewpoints including Sales, Customer Service, Manufacturing, and Finance. Each of these performance areas will feature:

1. The ability to analyze data using a pivot table style grid that will also permit graphical views of the analysis.

2. A graphical dashboard that will host several user selected views of critical performance data. The dashboard will facilitate the drilling down to source data.

3. A set of user defined KPI targets for items not budgeted in the GL; e.g. sales by rep and product. These will be available for use in the dashboard.

Session Presenter: Dick Grelck