Expanding your business around the globe provides exciting opportunities for increasing brand value, sales volumes and market share. Along with the increased availability of your products comes more responsibilities for overall business success and more challenges in resource management.
How do you:
- Efficiently manage the incoming and outgoing activity from each facility from location to location on the basis of resource capacity and material availability
- Access global customers' scheduled delivery information and effectively provide excellent customer service while taking different time zones and facilities into account
- Standardizing the process into one organized system across multiple locations so there is an increase in production and planning visibility from any facility
Your multi-facility planning and scheduling system will:
- Automate and integrate your "best practices" for the performance results you want every day at every location
- Make it easy for your sales, planning, and production teams to stay in sync, stay on schedule, and make the best decisions at a local and enterprise level
- Save your people time by automating much of the process, and save your business money by reducing manufacturing labor, inventory, and express shipping costs
Key Software Features for Managing Global Manufacturing Facilities:
- Worldwide-Plant and Warehouse capability to schedule independent or interdependent production jobs across facilities and countries
- Optimization scope that can be at the enterprise level or at the facility level
- Visibility of capacity within one plant or across different plants nationwide or worldwide
- Scheduling of a production order at various plants or across plants to find the earliest possible delivery
- Collaborative, multi-planner access to enable any number of planners at any number of plants to work together cohesively
- Localization to adjust for multiple time-zones and user-specific languages