Local control. Company-wide visibility.
Business is good and your company has grown to multiple production facilities. That's the good news. Now the job of effectively planning capacity and coordinating activities is more challenging &mdash and important &mdash than ever. Whether growth is by acquisition or expansion, processes tend to evolve in different directions at different locations making it difficult to manage operations effectively, compare results, and synchronize work that spans locations or has material or resource interdependencies.
How do you:
- Enable each facility to efficiently manage resources and changes in demand locally where detailed production knowledge exists
- Provide visibility of capacity and delivery dates across the entire company
- Standardize the planning and scheduling process for consistency and maximum overall effectiveness
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 Multiple-Facilities:
- Multi-Plant and Multi-Warehouse capability to schedule independent or interdependent production jobs across facilities
- Optimization scope that can be at the enterprise level or at the facility level
- Visibility of capacity within one plant or across different plants
- 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