Capacity Planning and Scheduling

Meet more orders on time with less overtime, less inventory, and lower costs.

What is Problem?

Every manufacturing company faces unique challenges, both from the industry they operate in and their own specific circumstances. Companies must not only deal with these challenges, but also increasing competitive pressure in a world that has become a single marketplace due to the effects of globalization.

Think about yourself! You are producing more diverse products for more customers while demand is fluctuating in an unpredictable way. To cope with this, you have increased the number of operators and machines, and each one has different skills. How you meet demand with the capacity you have has become more important than ever for customer satisfaction and company profitability. In this environment, where dynamic conditions are in charge, manufacturers have to work with lower stocks, better delivery performance, and high capacity utilization to be more efficient. Difficult questions that keep factory managers awake:

• Can I get more production in less time from the same production resources?
• Can I provide the same customer delivery performance with less inventory than I have now?
• Can I give my customers delivery times that I can stand behind for new projects and orders?
• When and where will I need to make new capacity investments?
• Will we need overtime this month, or should we produce orders for next month this month and store them?
• Which order should I produce on which machine and when?
• How should the production schedule be revised in case of employee shortage or machine breakdown?

What is Solution?

If you believe that effective production planning is essential to the success of every manufacturing company, you are in the right place. Especially if you are struggling to manage the growing number of products, orders, and resources with your current ERP and Excel spreadsheets. The world's leading manufacturers are turning to advanced production planning techniques to optimize their production resources and processes, provide much better service to their customers, and reduce their costs.

• If I had a planning system that could fully take into account all the rules and constraints that govern my production activities...
• If I could update the current production plan in seconds due to a broken machine or an urgent order change...
• If I could clearly see the bottlenecks and machine utilization in the future, not just today, and balance my capacity...

If you think so, an advanced production planning (APS) solution that will integrate with your ERP system will provide the competitive advantage you need. Let us help you remove obstacles to profitability such as high inventory levels, low delivery performance, low production output, and excessive waste by designing the right solution for you.