Planning & scheduling

Effective planning system and synchronization of the work of all divisions help manufacturers to:

• Reduce the level of unfinished production
• Ensure high level of completeness and timely delivery of units to the assembly site of finished products
• Shorten lead-time
• Reduce production stocks

The solution supports for multiple manufacturing models such as MTS, MTO ETO, CTO, ATO and covers three planning horizons:

• Master Production Schedule (MPS)
• Materials Planning (procurement)
• Scheduling (production orders)

Usually customer-focused manufacturing companies use several types of production, including Manufacturing-to-Stock (MTS).

IPL Consulting solutions based on Infor LN allow to implement various scenarios of production planning and management.

The main business processes that the Planning solution covers are:

• Creation of a unified planning system for the working design documentation development, procurement, and production
• Forecasting and modeling the demand for the company’s products
• The planned date definition of finished products shipment just in time of product ordering in accordance with production restrictions
• Planning the project’s resource needs (in case of project production)
• Volume-scheduling production planning
• Updating master-data
• Building of specification for critical capacities and materials
• Calculation of the planned capacity utilization
• The planned load of work centers analysis
• Modeling of the production restrictions
• Planning activities for the enterprise production capacity increasing
• Production capacity planning with load leveling according to planning periods
• Terms calculation and their analysis for the finished products release
• Quotas formation for periods of the medium-term planning horizon (maximum possible products output volumes)
• Nomenclature plans building for production and procurement
• Custom manufacturing plans tracking
• Remapping management for stocks and deliveries usage
• Calculation of the Labor-intensity of execution of the plan

Production orders dispatching and efficient management:

• Control of the production orders supply with materials and components
• Alternative replacements usage
• Demand planning and tool management
• Stock management during engineering changes
• Work Orders appointment (workers/labor appointment)

Production resource management in the process of dispatching:

• Operations progress analysis and shift of operations
• Analysis and work centers load leveling
• Step by step operational control of the production state
• Work centers working time schedule changes (calendar of a specific work center) due to the use of overtime work and days off
• Analysis of equipment load
• Rescheduling operations by time and by equipment units using function “drag and drop operation”.
• Control of the transfer batch management
• Bottleneck management
• Operations accounting, bar-coding