More visibility and powerful resource control at your fingertips.
A planner has a very important role within any manufacturing business. Everyone relies on the planner to coordinate production to satisfy customer orders and to ensure that manufacturing runs efficiently. As the business grows, expands into new product lines, acquires new equipment and order volumes increase, it becomes increasingly difficult to do the job effectively without the right tools. To remain competitive as a company and as a profession planner, it's necessary to move beyond manual spreadsheet solutions and harness the power of today's planning and scheduling tools.
How do you:
- Update the schedule every day to adjust for new orders, order changes and cancellations, engineering changes, machine breakdowns, and employee absenteeism... while still having time to proactively solve problems that will become tomorrow's crisis
- Evaluate the impact of proposed changes on other commitments to avoid "shooting yourself in the foot" and making matters worse
- Quickly communicate schedule changes that happen throughout the day to: sales, customer service, purchasing, and the shop floor
With your new planning and scheduling system you will:
- Save time and effort gathering the latest information every day thanks to schedule updates that happen automatically or at the push of a button from integrated order and inventory management systems
- Have an easy to use graphical "drag-and-drop" schedule board to make it easy to make adjustments
- Gain insight into problems on the horizon such as resource bottlenecks and material shortages
- Grow professionally as you become an expert in the best planning and scheduling tools on the market today
Key Software Features and Services:
- "Auto-adjusting" finite capacity drag-and-drop that moves work out of the way for you to enable easy schedule adjustments
- What-If Scenarios that allow for schedule experimenting in a "sandbox" environment that protects the live schedule
- Full undo/redo capability that gives you the confidence to make any changes to the schedule that you want without fear of errors that are difficult to undo
- Collaborative, multi-planner access to allow for multiple planners to be logged in simultaneously and work together
- Graphical resource and job Gantt views that give you customizable, insightful view of the resource schedules and constraints
- Easy to use tools for modifying schedules such as: locking operations to resources, holding work, splitting operations across multiple resources, and expediting orders (even with multi-level bills of material).
- Customizable job lists that enable you to see the information columns and filters in a way that makes your job easier