Plan Production & Purchase Orders to Meet Customer Requirements

THE CHALLENGE:

Maintaining a competitive edge in today's fast-paced global economy requires superior customer satisfaction. Customers demand the highest on-time delivery with the fastest cycle times, so responsiveness is the name of the game. The challenge to manufacturers is formidable. But when armed with up-to-the minute information and analysis, the opportunity for success has never been greater.

THE SOLUTION: CONSTRAINTS MANAGEMENT PROVIDES A SIMPLE ANSWER TO A COMPLEX PROBLEM

Somewhere in your manufacturing operation is a potential constraint -- the link in your internal supply chain that sets the pace of your operation's productivity. Every production facility has at least one of them. Yours may be a critical work center, a highly skilled worker or a particular material that is difficult to prep for manufacturing. But whatever the case may be, your operation's production constraints have a direct correlation to your company's ability to meet customer demand efficiently and cost effectively. You must maintain control over these constraints before they begin to control you.

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%

Advanced Planning puts the control of your manufacturing operation where it should be, in your hands.

Based upon the Theory of Constraints (TOC) - the industry's only proven approach to constraints management, it pinpoints a potential constraint within an operation and synchronises the rest of the manufacturing process to the constraint's pace. With the entire operation paced to the lowest common denominator, strategy replaces fear. Time buffers rather than inventory buffers are placed strategically to protect your manufacturing operation from unpredictable events. Throughput is increased and inventory requirements are reduced.

Advanced Constraints Planner uses the Theory of Constraints methodology to optimise the throughput of the constraints. Using a rich, graphical user interface, Advanced Constraints Planner makes it easy to create a master plan giving immediate feedback on capacity and material exceptions. Adjustments and alternatives can be rehearsed in “what-if” environments to find the best plan. Adjust supply by looking at alternate routings or considering offloading and outsourcing options, or adjust demand by changing order dates on lower priority orders. Once the planning scenarios have been run and the best plan has been shaped, simply commit the final plan. The server is updated, and reporting and execution are provided using existing manufacturing planning.