NTM - New technology mechanism

Number of predefined technologies to enter

Many, you have to enter all the combinations of the whole process

Not required, you have to enter many operation definitions but you can generate all the combinations of technologies easily from them. Also technologies are smaller a we have batter support for splitting them.

Much less, product families and attributes give us more flexible technologies. We also split technologies among production lines. But we still have to enter many technologies if products inside the families need different operations or time/cost norms.

Complex dependencies, splits and joins of the production process

Only simplified to trees

Only simplified to trees

Supported

Technologies/Orders for many products

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Technologies/Orders to process components

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Support for integration of intermediates in warehouses

Limited. We can separate orders/technologies but we also separate the balance report.

Supported but you have to keep this in mind while splitting technologies/orders. The master order will combine the balance.

Configurable on the operation level.

Flexible production counting

You can only report what was predefined in the technology.

Available option to add operations, input/outputs and additional costs while the order is in progress.

Same as in minor refactor.

Individual production

Not supported, requires new full prefedined technology every time.

Technology can be constructed ad hoc per order. It can also be modified during the orders progress. However defining the tree structure instead just a list is often an unnecessary hassle.

Very elastic support.

Calculations complexity

Simple in current state

The same complexity

Very complex and not possible if all necessary dependancies are not i place.

Technology auto-generation

Not implemented

Possible from operations definition.

Possible but very complex.