Project Management Soon

Posted in project management by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Nov 3, 2005

Soon!, Project Management!

Keep on touch!!!

Warehouse Management System & 1984

Posted in logistics by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Nov 1, 2005

ITT: WMS needed!

Features required:

  • Receiving
  • Directed put-away
  • Cross-docking
  • Order/wave planning
  • Picking
  • Packing
  • Shipping
  • Report generation
  • Inventory control
  • Cycle counting
  • Transaction logging
  • Value-added services
  • Kitting
  • Simultaneous RF and paper operation
  • Multi-lingual and user-defined dictionary support
  • Cluster and batch picking
  • Expanded serial/lot number tracking
  • Expanded weight and metrics capture
  • Interleaved task management
  • Multi-level BOMs
  • ASN and multi-SKU container receiving
  • System-directed replenishment
  • AI CHIP IMPLANTED ON THE BRAIN OF THE OPERATIVES WHICH ARE GOING TO TRY BY-PASSING THE SOFTWARE COMMANDS!!!

Nothing is perfect! Please send your proposals to wh47dh311@1984?.kom

Mean Manufacturing

Posted in lean manufacturing by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Sep 15, 2005

Yes, mean not lean! (it’s not a typo).

I was checking some definitions of “lean manufacturing“, and I’ve found out one that I really like (the one were the link takes you). Why do I like it so much?. Well, it stresses out the different views on production and the associated risks (i.e. engineer uses not the most efficient way but the safest one…, for him!).

It’s not a bad strategy though, it’s a conservative one. Has the engineer taken into account if the risk is possible, or probable?. Can we account for it?. Can we introduce it into the analysis?.

However, don’t blame the engineer!. Have you seen those cowboy consultants taking lean to an extreme?. Ask the engineer!, he’ll tell you!.

Thanks.

PS. Based on a fictional story. ; )

Multi-user, Multi-task, Multi-scratch!

Posted in me, project management by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Jun 26, 2005

No, I’m not talking about computer operating systems, I’m talking about real life.

I have noticed I’m quite a disorganised guy, with quite a lot of things on my head, quite a lot of things on my hands, quite a few projects to achieve… Hey! Someone has said “projects”?.

Yes, that’s the theme of today’s post: “Project Management”, that blessing that will help us to get the dots on the i’s and… so on.

But beware, you software junkies! Project management is more that a tool, it’s a philosophy. If you start messing around with the soft just because you have it and think is going to take you to heaven… wrong!!!. You’ve been warned.