Advanced Planning and Scheduling is the combination of Planning and Optimization.
The main features and advantages of Advanced Planning and Scheduling are listed below.
Visual Scheduling
- Manage all your constraints while the schedule takes materials, machines, labor, and tooling into account.
- Customize charts to visually depict schedules with powerful Resource Gantt and Job Gantt features.
- Move orders around easily while always respecting constraints and automatically rescheduling other jobs with Advanced Planning & Scheduling’s exclusive “finite” Drag-and-Drop feature.
- Visualize resource utilization and availability with Gantt Charts and Capacity Plan graphs and grid.
- See problems in advance with a red highlighting feature that identifies bottleneck operations.
Powerful Optimization Engine
- Drive efficient production every minute of every day with optimization rules that allow you to schedule based on your goals and production requirements.
- Balance between any combination of: due dates, priority, revenue, Work-In-Progress reduction, setup time reduction, work remaining and many more options with easy slider-adjustable, resource-specific rules.
- Minimize Work-In-Progress inventory and maximize output with Just in Time and Theory of Constraints bottleneck scheduling.
Multi-User and Multi-Location Collaboration
- Work collaboratively and cohesively with any number of planners at the same time.
- Manage schedules simultaneously — allowing each planner to focus on the operations that they know best.
- Schedule on your own terms — by work center, department, facility, product line or customer.
What-If Impact Analysis
- Predict outcomes quickly and make informed decisions based on real and experimental schedules.
- Graph and track schedule quality by using Key Performance Indicators.
- Create multiple scenarios for comparing the main schedule against experimental schedules.
- Undo/Redo user actions for safe evaluation of alternatives.
Real-Time Schedules
- View the most up-to-date schedule at all times as the system enables real-time updates.
- Use printed schedules or live dispatch lists directly from your system on the shop floor.
- Schedule simple, single-operation jobs all the way up to many-to-many operation flows easily and accurately.
Sales & Operations Planning
- See inventory projections that take the following variables into account: On-Hand Inventory, Sales Orders, Forecasts, Transfer Orders, Purchase Orders and Production Orders.
- Avoid lost sales by easily identifying potential inventory backlogs that the system highlights in red.
- Predict when materials will run out in time to order replenishments.
- Identify the impact of capacity shortages on Forecasts and Sales Orders.
Application areas:
All Industries. ORTEC Solutions areas are: Vehicle Routing and Dispatch, Pallet and Load Building, Workforce Scheduling, Field Service Planning
ORTEC contribution:
For 30+ years, ORTEC has been a leader in developing and implementing APS solutions, mainly in the distribution, workforce management and field services. ORTEC now serves 1500+ companies in 60+ countries. ORTEC solutions support the daily planning of 350.000+ trucks, 500.000+ people and millions of delivery and service orders a day. For more, please visit our "About ORTEC" page.
ORTEC references a.o.:
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