Hartlief Continental Meat Products
Procurement · Raw material supply
Hume International pork into Plant 7200 through the Cape Town cold store. Two decisions kept separate: when to place an order on Hume, governed by the three month supply lead time, and when to release a container from CT to Hartlief, governed by the shorter cold store lead time. Select any material row for its full order book.
Select a summary card or any material row to open the order book, with sales order, purchase order, origin, price and dates for every consignment.
Record a purchase order or a consignment update. Entries are saved with the board and are visible to everyone who opens it, so the order book stays current between the monthly schedule files. Baseline consignments read in from the confirmed orders sheet cannot be edited here; new entries can be removed.
Connecting to the board store.
Entries saved on this board. On order and in transit quantities count towards pipeline stock in the order decision; held at CT quantities are counted as float when the CT stock figure is left at its default.
| Material | Purchase order | Quantity (kg) | ETA Hartlief | Status |
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Ordering is judged on everything in the system: plant stock, CT stock, and quantities already ordered and on the water. The order point is demand consumed across the full pipeline, Hume lead time plus CT release time, plus the service buffer. Once pipeline stock falls below that line, no order placed today arrives in time, so the order point is the last safe moment rather than a warning.
| Material | Pipeline stock (kg) | Order point (kg) | Order quantity (kg) | Order decision |
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Releasing from CT is a separate and much shorter decision. Plant stock runs down against weekly demand; when plant cover falls inside the CT release time plus buffer, a container is released and the DVS single consignment permit is applied for at that point. The 26 week strip projects plant stock: green is covered by plant stock and scheduled arrivals, ochre is covered only by drawing the CT float, red is uncovered by either.
| Material | Plant stock (kg) | CT stock (kg) | Plant cover (days) | Release by | Draw decision |
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Strip:coveredon safety stock floatuncoveredarrival week
The safety stock plan sized the float at one container per material against a four week buffer. At a three month supply lead time the test is different: the float must hold production together for as long as a replacement order takes to arrive.
| Material | Container (kg) | Cover from one container (weeks) | Float needed (containers) | Verdict |
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Each scheduled sailing worked back to the date the order had to reach Hume. These lines carry no purchase order, so a passed order date means the sailing cannot be met.
| Material | Quantity (kg) | Order by | Arrives CT | Arrives Hartlief | Status |
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