WMS, inventory, order fulfillment, EDI
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Industry domain brief
Manufacturing & Industrial
COBOLpro documents ERP, MRP, order, production, inventory, quality, costing, and EDI logic for industrial documentation.
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Legacy estate
Systems and data surfaces to inspect
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Workflows
Business workflows grouped by capability
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Risks
Business impacts with control focus
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Deliverables
COBOLpro assessment artifacts
Executive summary
Manufacturing and industrial estates often combine IBM i, AS/400, RPG, COBOL, ERP customizations, EDI, plant-floor integrations, and finance feeds. Production, inventory, quality, and customer commitments depend on behavior that may be undocumented outside source code.
COBOLpro creates a domain brief that helps operations, supply chain, finance, and technology leaders sequence documentation without interrupting plants, warehouses, customers, or suppliers.
Legacy systems in scope
The source estate to turn into an operating map.
Each row is structured for executive review: where the COBOL behavior sits, what it touches, and what the documentation must prove.
Planning and production
Legacy estate
ERP, MRP, forecasting, production scheduling, work orders, routing, BOM, costing, and shop-floor systems
Documentation focus
MRP runs, schedule changes, routing, costing, work orders, and production constraints
Order, inventory, and warehouse
Legacy estate
Order management, inventory, purchasing, warehouse, shipping, invoicing, customer service, and finance feeds
Documentation focus
Order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, stock movement, allocation, fulfillment, and close-of-period impacts
Quality and partner exchange
Legacy estate
Quality, nonconformance, traceability, lot, serial, recall, supplier EDI, customer EDI, and compliance systems
Documentation focus
Quality evidence, recall readiness, supplier and customer dependencies, and regulated traceability
Operational workflows
Business capabilities, not raw program lists.
COBOLpro groups source behavior around the operating workflows buyers need to preserve, explain, or replace.
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Planning and manufacturing
- Forecasting, MRP, scheduling, routing, and work orders
- Shop-floor execution, costing, and production reporting
- BOM, engineering change, and capacity dependencies
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Supply chain and fulfillment
- Order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory movement, and shipping
- Warehouse operations, supplier collaboration, and customer service
- EDI, invoicing, finance close, and logistics handoffs
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Quality and traceability
- Quality checks, nonconformance, lot, serial, and recall
- Warranty, compliance, and traceability reporting
- Supplier and customer quality evidence exchange
Risk and control priorities
Where legacy ambiguity becomes business exposure.
The assessment narrows risk to business impact and source-backed control evidence instead of treating documentation as a generic code inventory.
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Production continuity
Business impact
ERP, MRP, inventory, and plant dependencies can stop production or fulfillment if changed incorrectly.
Control focus
Map production jobs, files, interfaces, schedules, and fallback procedures before sequencing system work.
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Embedded ERP customizations
Business impact
BOM, routing, costing, and inventory behavior may be split across older programs and custom tables.
Control focus
Document rules with source references and connect them to operations, finance, and customer impacts.
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Traceability obligations
Business impact
Quality, lot, serial, and recall behavior must remain provable across long product and supplier lifecycles.
Control focus
Trace quality and traceability data across source code, files, EDI, reports, and downstream systems.
COBOLpro assessment output
Concrete artifacts for continuity decisions.
Outputs are written for shared use across business, audit, architecture, application, data, and delivery teams.
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ERP and MRP dependency map
Planning, orders, inventory, production, quality, warehouse, EDI, and finance dependencies organized by capability.
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Manufacturing rule catalog
BOM, routing, costing, quality, inventory, allocation, traceability, and EDI rules with source citations.
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Plant and warehouse runbook
Jobs, programs, files, shop-floor handoffs, supplier feeds, customer feeds, and close processes mapped together.
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Documentation sequencing package
Evidence for ERP replacement, data-system moves, reporting changes, and integration documentation.
Domain assessment