Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling solution for manufacturing companies which will reside over ERP solution like SAP, Oracle or Microsoft Dynamics

Companies today face lot of challenges in today’s market with increase in product mix and volume, rising customer expectation, stiff competition and reduced margin. On top of that, there are some complex production operations. The need of the hour is a robust solution which will help companies to
•Make planning decisions to allocate constrained material and capacity to high priority customers
•Provide due date commits to customers on when products can be delivered
•Optimize on sourcing decisions on when to order raw materials from suppliers, and in what quantity considering real-time capacity constraints
•Real time data on production status and communicate this to marketing team
•Better working capital management with increase in inventory turns, reduced overtime and reduced expedite costs
Consolidation of data from all the department and get reliable reports

To fulfill the above requirements, Planvisage offers Advanced Planning and Scheduling solution.
Problems are encountered everyday like delay from supplier, cycle time variation, material rejection, resource breakdown and so on. This is further compounded by demand from customer who could change the due date or quantity of order. So any production plan cannot be fixed as it becomes infeasible the very next day.
A company can become flexible and reliable and also at the same time keep inventory and resource downtime low by running production plan frequently. Planvisage helps to achieve this as their core strength has been in the area of production planning and scheduling. Through Planvisage planning solution, work orders and procurement orders are automatically generated taking into account real time material and capacity constraints. The planning algorithm can be run frequently so that all the problems in factory are visible. Preventive measure can be taken before the problem goes out of proportion.
APS resides over ERP to do planning taking into account material and capacity constraints. It pulls required data from ERP like BOM, Routing, Inventory and WIP and does the planning. The output of the result is sent back to ERP for execution.