Target Group
- Small industrial companies with up to around 50 employees and production planning with paper & pencil or MS Excel
- Medium-sized industrial companies with 50 to around 250 employees and semi-automated production planning with an ERP/MRP system
- Large companies with more than 250 employees and partially/fully automated production planning with an ERP/MRP or APS system
Challenges
Your customers request reliable delivery dates and transparent progress information?
Your management wants high on-time delivery with short throughput times, high capacity utilisation and as low inventory levels as possible?
Your actual scheduling is done with a lot ot manual coordination, paper&pencil or MS Excel on a daily weekly basis?
Incorrect planned/actual data, rework, machine failures or rush orders constantly disrupt your plans and cause firefigthing?
Your machines would be available 7/24, but your employees / skills, material or e.g. tools are limitted?
Your ERP/PPS system plans with infinite capacity into the past and you with fire-fighting actions and MS Excel?
You want to make better decisions, increase planning quality and What-if-Simulation?
Solution
- What-if with online simulation: Recognize the current status of orders at a glance and carry out replanning online and simulate the effects on all orders.
- Intelligent optimization: Algorithms for holistic detailed planning with limited capacities to optimize throughput times, on-time delivery, costs and utilization. Nesting, setup optimization, order networks, planning areas, etc.
- Planning without backlogs: No planning into the past with infinite capacity, but forward/backward scheduling against real available capacities.
- Real-time update: Feedback from production updates the planning online, with impacts visualized.
- Multi-resource planning: Scheduling of e.g. machines, workplaces, people, tools or materials with their qualification matrix.
- Interactive planning board with intuitive operation and customizability to individual needs.
- Integration into the existing IT landscape and integrable with any ERP/PPS system
Functionality
4APS consists of an interactive assistant system for real-time production planning and control with what-if simulation. Further details in the brochure.
References
Brochure
Benefits
- Productivity ↑
- Flexibility ↑
- On-time delivery ↑
- Transparency ↑
- Throughput times ↓
- Planning effort ↓