Every manufacturing company, large or small, has a production plan: a schedule that operates as a road map for everyone in the company, from the one who buys materials to complete the order to the last one who sees the shipment of finished product leave the dock.
To ensure due dates are met, the production plan must be 100% viable and executable, wisely using your resources, machine availability, materials, crew, and time. Today’s supply chain disruptions, labor force issues, constant market demand fluctuations, inflation, and other challenges make building an optimal production plan much more complex—so much more important. These challenges particularly impact small to medium manufacturing companies.
If something is missing or lacking in your plan—or your reality on the shop floor—you won’t be able to complete orders as scheduled, you won’t be able to ship products on time, and you will let your customers down.
Our Production Planner gives you flexibility.
Flexibility Means Reliability = Greater Profitability
Our Production Planner gives you flexibility. This translates to reliability for your customers and equals greater profitability for you!
Built to address today’s manufacturing challenges, our Production Planner helps you see the problems in your schedule so you can react quickly to find solutions. It also enables you to maintain your company’s reputation by building achievable production plans that allow you to ship to your customers on time.
You’ll be able to react quickly to constantly changing customer needs or supplier situations. When a customer or supplier throws you a curve ball, our Production Planner’s ability to create what-if simulations can help you quickly get back on track.
By playing simulations, you can ensure that the alternative scenarios are achievable and that you have sufficient materials, labor force, and production capacity. Once you are satisfied with your what-if simulation, you can finalize and release the schedule.
ERP or no ERP?
Is an ERP (or Enterprise Resource Planning) system necessary for building viable production plans? NO!
Some manufacturers use packaged ERP systems such as Oracle, QAD, SAP, Microsoft, etc. Each is a sound system with solid functionality, but they can fall short when building a viable, 100% executable production plan.
Other manufacturing companies use homegrown systems, and some don’t use an ERP system at all.
Our Production Planner is designed to work with ALL of these scenarios. It will interface with any ERP system—even with your homegrown. The Production Planner solution makes your ERP system more robust as a production planning tool.
But, if you don’t have a system, our Production Planner will function as your affordable mini ERP system with full production planning capability.
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