| |
| Production Planning |
|
 |
Production planning involves automatic generation of work orders and procurement orders based on |
|
|
 Real time material and capacity constraints end-to-end |
| Minimize costs by reducing inventory and wip |
| Effective resource utilization |
| Insure adherence to customer delivery dates |
| |
|
Planvisage Production Planning module does it by |
|
|
Considering both material and capacity constraints simultaneously while generating production plan |
|
| Using pull based model to generate the plan thereby reducing inventory |
| Maintaining safety stock |
| Reducing resource downtime by aligning the flow of material |
| |
|
Features of Planvisage Production Planning module are |
|
|
What-if analysis capability to find if a new order can be satisfied, given a set of orders are already planned in the system |
|
| Infinite capacity planning |
| Incremental planning of an order |
| Prioritize an order based on customer. |
| Consolidate all orders |
| Lock/freeze a plan up to a certain number of days |
|
Model calendar like working shifts, holidays, planned maintenance and overtime |
|
| Planned orders can be viewed using Gantt chart |
|
Graphical representation of end-to-end factory shop floor and movement of orders |
|
| Support of 1-level of distribution from factory to customer while planning |
| Different resource types like simple, aggregate, pool, batch and subcontract |
|
Model capacity constraints like setup time, wait time, min queue time, transfer batch quantity, yield, alternate resource and alternate routing. |
|
|
Model material constraints like operation level consumption, by products, lot sizes and alternate item |
|
|
| Warns how work orders and sales orders are affected when |
|
| Supplier has delayed his shipment |
| Cycle time variation |
Material rejection |
Resource breakdown |
| |
