AAOM Handbook

In the ERP location/equipment structure the Operations, Processes and Productive Units providing materials or information to multiple elements of the Business Structure (e.g. power/water/air supply, mine dewatering system, etc.) should be included in a separate hierarchy to the point where they provide materials/information to multiple elements within a level of the location/equipment structure (i.e. product or service is shared across the elements). Thereafter, where they feed into only one element of the location/equipment structure, they should be incorporated within that element. For example; the main power supply to an Operation should be a separate element of the location/equipment structure to the level where a distribution board, switch and cable provides feeds to a Process within the Operation. The Distribution Board(s) within the Process, and all switches, cables and equipment that provide feed to the Productive Units within the process should be included in the hierarchy of the Process. Similarly the distribution boards, etc. within the Productive Unit should be included within its hierarchy. If there are no significant sub divisions of a level in the Business Structure then the subordinate level may be skipped, or else the superior level may be replicated at the subordinate level.

Time

The Business Structure VDT and VSM shall be defined at the time of establishing a process.

Review and update of process VDT, VSM and Business Structure shall be completed each time a change to the process design is made.

Resources

Specification of Business Structure is the accountability of the role identified in the configured flowchart.

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