4APS for real-time multi-resouce scheduling

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, 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.

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