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The term Advanced
Planning and Scheduling (APS) refers to
a new generation of planning and
scheduling tools that provide rapid and
accurate materials and capacity planning
even in a complex manufacturing
environment.
Information
technology is bringing suppliers and
customers closer together under the
umbrella of supply chain management
(SCM). As the exchange of data continues
to intensify much more is demanded from
production planning in this environment
subject to these new relationships:
- Accurate performance of delivery
schedules
- Rapid reaction to change
in product choice and quantity
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Timely and reliable order promising for
customer enquiries
These are the
perfect conditions for open and
successful cooperation and they can no
longer be bought just with large
inventories. Today's economic and
commercial conditions will not support
it.
With this trend, proALPHA saw
an opportunity to introduce a completely
new planning concept based on today's
technological and organisational
developments. The centralised MRP II
principles still used in many planning
systems have been replaced and the rigid
ties to process and product structures
severed.
Transparency of all
Detail - Even in Complex Organisations
The entire order
management process can be modelled, not
just a production plant's operations,
but an entire supply chain, including
suppliers, multiple production plants,
and complex distribution chains. All
resources and schedules are always
included - even in the most complex
process structures. The impact of
planning on all areas of the network can
be seen. Specifically, that means ad-hoc
questions on order feasibility or the
effect of a change in capacity on any
affected orders can be made with
certainty. The resulting opportunities
for optimisation can be implemented in
any phase of production by any
departments. This new perspective allows
a flexible yet precise execution of
multiple business objectives; you can
optimise a single schedule, or, your
goal might be to plan for an inventory
reduction.
Speed of Response
proALPHA APS will not require
extensive amounts of computer time.
Results are produced in seconds.
Maximum Benefit
Obtained from Integrated Functions.
The influences on
capacity planning are numerous: from
order times for individual supplier
parts to the load capacity of packing
equipment, to route planning for freight
forwarders. These all demand the
thorough integration of planning
functionality into a company-wide
information system. Planning systems
"linked" to a separate server cannot
begin to deliver adequate quality simply
because of their limited access to the
actual data "scattered" throughout the
organization.
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