ADVANCE FINITE PLANNING

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Finite capacity scheduling to make every minute count.

Squeezing the last ounce of productivity from critical production resources demands detailed scheduling—down to the minute. Plans that look good at the daily level can fail to recognise capacity and material limitations or dependencies of sequenced changeovers, lengthening run times and threatening the time slots of customer deliveries.

Infor SCM Production Scheduling provides finite capacity scheduling (FCS) capabilities with deep levels of detail to help you meet customer order delivery times and maximise the productivity of your production assets. Its powerful scheduling engines synchronise your products on all lines, checking interdependencies and optimally sequencing to shorten make-time.

Infor’s production scheduling solutions help companies like yours:

• Improve on-time delivery performance by up to 5%
• Reduce lost time due to changeovers by as much as 30%
• Decrease cycle times of over 20%
• Cut production costs up to 10%
• Increase capacity utilisation and throughput between 10-40% 

Infor’s production scheduling solutions, which can be implemented with any ERP software system, use finite capacity scheduling and optimisation principles to address your essential scheduling challenges. These applications are business specific with industry experience built in—and like Infor’s manufacturing planning solutions, their “design-for-use” heritage ensures fast implementation, with minimal effort, so they start to deliver ROI within weeks. They schedule your capacity, labor, materials, and any enabling resources across all lines. Drag-and-drop scheduling boards make it easy to visualise and change schedules, and browser-based screens make changes instantly visible. Components include:

Scheduler - finite capacity scheduling for engineering, assembly, and repetitive production environments characterised by bills of material and routings synchronises all operations to deliver higher throughput and faster cycle times.

Advanced Scheduler - finite capacity scheduling for batch-process production facilities characterised by recipes, by- and co-products, and tank scheduling for liquids optimises productivity, minimises changeover times, and improves on-time delivery performance.