OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) is seamlessly integrated within its manufacturing solution to maximize your production processes and keep them flowing smoothly. OptiPro Manufacturing’s APS helps manufacturers balance demand, capacity, and constraints to generate achievable production schedules.
Advanced Planning and Scheduling
ERP software for manufacturing and distribution
OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling simplifies and enhances the orchestration of your manufacturing processes through robust planning and scheduling capabilities
Why Choose OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling Software?
OptiPro Manufacturing’s APS enables manufacturers to:
- Plan: in finite or infinite capacity mode with multiple or no constraints to make better planning decisions
- Schedule: interactively with multiple or no constraints and digitally generate, modify, update, and visualize production schedules to meet your needs
- Optimize: according to easily configurable business objectives, such as minimizing changeover times and other schedule-optimizing priorities
- Visualize: production schedules, current load, resource capacity, bottlenecks, ‘what if’ scenarios, the impact of changes, and compare alternatives
- React: quickly and intelligently to expected and unexpected changes to your production and update your production schedules digitally
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Why Choose OptiProERP’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling Software?
OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) is seamlessly integrated within its manufacturing solution to maximize your production processes and keep them flowing smoothly. OptiPro Manufacturing’s APS helps manufacturers balance demand, capacity, and constraints to generate achievable production schedules
OptiPro Manufacturing’s APS enables manufacturers to:
- Plan: in finite or infinite capacity mode with multiple or no constraints to make better planning decisions
- Schedule: interactively with multiple or no constraints and digitally generate, modify, update, and visualize production schedules to meet your needs
- Optimize: according to easily configurable business objectives, such as minimizing changeover times and other schedule-optimizing priorities
- Visualize: production schedules, current load, resource capacity, bottlenecks, ‘what if’ scenarios, the impact of changes, and compare alternatives
- React: quickly and intelligently to expected and unexpected changes to your production and update your production schedules digitally
Production Challenges Manufacturers Face that a Good Planning and Scheduling Tool Helps Solve
- Demand, supply, and capacity not in balance
- Changes in lead times, customer demand, and the supply chain
- Longer delivery times and getting products to customers on schedule
- Production bottlenecks, idle time, and resource inefficiencies
- Disconnected demand, purchasing, and production planning
- Reacting slowly to deviations from the production plan and schedule
- Little insight into manufacturing processes, tasks, and disruptions
- Inadequate visibility to make better planning and scheduling decisions
- Inability to react to expected and unexpected changes
Why Should You Invest in OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling?
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Gain an Immediate Return on Investment
Savings and efficiencies generated by OptiPro Manufacturing’s APS allow you to recover your investment in a matter of months in most cases
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Improve Planning and Scheduling Accuracy
Schedule quickly and accurately to minimize downtime and increase efficiency
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Boost Productivity
25% improvement in plant productivity by minimizing setup, balancing loads, pegging of components and material, and optimizing your production plan
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Reduce Inventory and Man-Hour Costs
Up to 50% reduction in raw material and WIP stock by optimizing and synchronizing inventory purchases with your production plan
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Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness and Reduce Machine Downtime
Take all resources, including machines, into account to improve equipment usage and minimize resource downtime
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Increase Visibility
Fast scheduling with an interactive and graphical planning board, for visibility across the organization
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Improve On-time Deliveries and Customer Service
80% improvement in on-time deliveries with accurate scheduling for greater customer satisfaction
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Make Better Tactical and Strategic Decisions
Use decision tools for better short-term tactical planning with a few weeks planning horizon and detailed sequencing and scheduling, and long-term strategic planning covering months and years
OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling
Brings Industry 4.0 Capabilities to Small and Midsize Manufacturers
For manufacturers small and large, digitalization is changing everything. Manufacturers of all sizes are needing to react more quickly and intelligently to unforeseen changes, such as supply change disruptions, changes in lead times, and ever-changing customer demands.
OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning and Scheduling is specifically designed to meet this need for small and midsize manufacturers with entry-level Industry 4.0 capabilities:
- Simulates your environment by considering your resource capacity
- Analyzes ‘what if’ scenarios to create an optimized production plan
- Uses advanced algorithms to balance demand and capacity
- Schedules orders quickly using intelligent built-in rules
- Simplifies planning and scheduling with interactive and visual tools
How OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling Works for You
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Model Your Manufacturing Environment
On the demand side, the solution considers forecasts, long-term orders, and overall demand planning. On the capacity side, it takes into account the availability of resources (machines, labor, tooling, materials, and more) and additional constraints to ensure an accurate model of your environment.
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Plan in Various Time Horizons with Finite or Infinite Capacity
Planning can be executed in finite or infinite capacity mode and planning time periods can be days, weeks, months, or a combination of all three. Detailed production schedule information can be sent back to the production plan.
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Schedule Digitally with Multiple or No Constraints and Defined Objectives
Simply click and drag, and the production of a particular item can be moved from one planning period to another. Manually interact with the schedule to make changes, save, and digitally push updates to your whole production schedule. Define schedule optimization rules to deal with problems such as minimizing changeover times and preferred sequencing.
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Generate the Best Achievable Production Schedule for Your Needs
Taking your business objectives, forecasts, demand, and capacity constraints into account, the solution determines what and how much to make, where and when to make it, and exactly what materials and resources are required to achieve your optimized and achievable production schedule.
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Support Tactical and Strategic Decision-Making
The solution is designed to support decision making about the feasibility and affects to your production as well as major production capacity decisions. It also provides decision-making support for overtime, order prioritization, split production batches, due date negotiation, and order processing.
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Model Your Manufacturing Environment
On the demand side, the solution considers forecasts, long-term orders, and overall demand planning. On the capacity side, it takes into account the availability of resources (machines, labor, tooling, materials, and more) and additional constraints to ensure an accurate model of your environment.
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Plan in Various Time Horizons with Finite or Infinite Capacity
Planning can be executed in finite or infinite capacity mode and planning time periods can be days, weeks, months, or a combination of all three. Detailed production schedule information can be sent back to the production plan.
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Schedule Digitally with Multiple or No Constraints and Defined Objectives
Simply click and drag, and the production of a particular item can be moved from one planning period to another. Manually interact with the schedule to make changes, save, and digitally push updates to your whole production schedule. Define schedule optimization rules to deal with problems such as minimizing changeover times and preferred sequencing.
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Generate the Best Achievable Production Schedule for Your Needs
Taking your business objectives, forecasts, demand, and capacity constraints into account, the solution determines what and how much to make, where and when to make it, and exactly what materials and resources are required to achieve your optimized and achievable production schedule.
-
Support Tactical and Strategic Decision-Making
The solution is designed to support decision making about the feasibility and affects to your production as well as major production capacity decisions. It also provides decision-making support for overtime, order prioritization, split production batches, due date negotiation, and order processing.
OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling Functionality
Master Production Scheduling (MPS)
Work with projected and actual supply chain demand to create production, purchasing, and inventory schedules.
Finite and Rough Cut Capacity Planning
Define total operational capacity based on machines, materials, tooling, and resources available.
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Automate purchasing and production to ensure inventory levels are optimized and available when needed.
Demand Forecasting
Forecast inventory demand by sales order, historical sales patterns or to meet minimum stock requirements.
Operational Capacity
Working backwards, planning engine automatically calculates materials, resources, and capacity needed to complete each step.
Global Planning
Planning engine identifies demand for multi-plant entities, consolidating orders for more efficient procurement.
BOM Level Planning
Explode the planning Bill of Materials (BOM) and calculate the production plan for lower-level items in the same way.
Interactive Scheduling / Scheduling Workbench
Visualize and interact with your production schedule. Click and drag to move production orders and update production schedules automatically.
‘What if’ Simulations
Simulate and evaluate multiple ‘what if’ scenarios, impact analysis, and capable-to-promise to support your daily activities.
Make-to-Order Planning
Quickly assess the affects of future demand changes and if it’s possible to meet new requirements when a change in demand, quantity, or delivery date occurs.
Make-to-Stock Planning
Generate an accurate and achievable schedule considering rough cut capacity, target days of stock cover, min and max re-order quantities, and more.
Advanced Constraint Modeling
Model various resource constraints including primary, secondary, materials, resources, tooling, labor, and machines.
Advanced Material Handling
Implement custom rules about how materials are consumed to ensure sub-assemblies and raw materials are used according to business rules.
Advanced Schedule Optimization
Define schedule optimization rules to deal with problems such as minimizing changeover times, WIP, and stock levels.
Order Based Multi-Constraint Scheduling
Create order-based schedules and apply a ranking or weighting to prioritize orders based on resources available and additional constraints.
Comprehensive Traceability
Trace and manage changes, costs, delays, and more.
Flexible and Customizable
Configure your planning and scheduling engine to your needs with one of the most customizable solutions on the market.
Preconfigured Reports and Alerts
Run quickly and intelligently with best practice reports and alerts already configured out-of-the-box.
Forecast Consumption
Choose a to consume or not consume forecast, and you may choose to consume forward, backward, first forward and then backward, and finally backward and then forward.
Rescheduling
This function will suggest you push out or cancel unutilized production orders/purchase orders.
Pegging
Pegs current supplies to current demands respecting applicable rescheduling rules (Pegging Window) and derives the balance demands that need to be fulfilled.
Supply Manipulation Rules
The APS engine generates supply recommendations after performing demand shortfall aggregation based on quantity manipulation rules (Minimum Order Quantity, Order Multiplier, Default lot size on routing) defined at the item level.
Dashboard
The dashboard allows you to view the last plan run output, exceptions, view pegging information, view RCCP, and view and release recommendations.
Benefits of OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning and Scheduling Software
OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling Data Sheet
Learn more about how OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling software helps you digitally orchestrate your manufacturing processes to keep production flowing as smoothly as possible.
OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling Data Sheet
Learn more about how OptiPro Manufacturing’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling software helps you digitally orchestrate your manufacturing processes to keep production flowing as smoothly as possible.
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