P
lanning Product profile
solution manage schedules
simultaneously – allowing each
planner to focus on the operations
that they know best. They can also
schedule on their own terms – by
work centre, department, facility,
product line or customer.
What-if impact
analysis
Demand Solutions Advanced Planning
& Scheduling is designed to predict
outcomes quickly and make informed
decisions based on real and experi -
mental schedules. In addition, users
can graph and track schedule quality
by using Key Performance Indicators
(KPIs), create multiple scenarios for
comparing the main schedule against
experimental schedules and un-do or
re-do user actions for safe evaluation
of alternatives.
Real-Time Schedules
resources such as tools, machines and Having the advantage to see problems in
workforce. Demand Solutions comments that advance with a red highlighting feature Demand Solutions Advanced Planning &
the production scheduling software identifies that identifies bottleneck operations. Scheduling reportedly provides users with
mismatches (shortages and overages) the means to view the most up-to-date
between supply and demand – even those schedule at all times as the system enables
that are months away. The company adds Powerful optimisation real-time updates. With this solution, users
that such visibility provides organisations engine can also print schedules or live dispatch lists
ample time to adjust purchasing plans and directly from the system on the shop floor
manufacturing capacities. Demand Solutions Advanced Planning & and schedule simple, single-operation jobs to
Scheduling is claimed to be able to drive multiple operation flows easily and accurately.
efficient production throughout the day
Visual scheduling with optimisation rules that allow users
to schedule based on their goals and Sales & Operations
Demand Solutions states that its Advanced production requirements. Users can Planning
Planning & Scheduling solution can help reportedly better balance between any
companies to better manage all their combination of: due dates, priority, revenue, Users can also see inventory projections that
constraints while the schedule takes WIP reduction, setup time reduction, work take the following variables into account:
materials, machines, labour and tooling into remaining and other options with easy On-Hand Inventory, Sales Orders, Forecasts,
account. Reported benefits are: slider-adjustable, resource-specific rules. Transfer Orders, Purchase Orders and
Demand Solutions comments that users Production Orders. The system also helps
The ability to customise charts to visually can also minimise Work-In-Progress users to avoid lost sales by easily identifying
depict schedules with powerful Resource inventory and maximise output with JIT potential inventory backlogs that the system
Gantt and Job Gantt features. (Just in Time) and Theory of Constraints highlights in red. It is also claimed to be able
bottleneck scheduling. to predict when materials will run out in time
The facility to move orders around easily to order replenishments, and identify the
while always respecting constraints and impact of capacity shortages on Forecasts
automatically rescheduling other jobs with Multi-user and multi-plant and Sales Orders.
Advanced Planning & Scheduling’s ‘finite’ collaboration
Drag-and-Drop feature. Demand Solutions Advanced Planning &
Demand Solutions Advanced Planning & Scheduling is highly flexible; able to do
The ability to visualise resource utilisation Scheduling, users can better work rough-cut capacity planning as well as finite
and availability with Gantt Charts and collaboratively and cohesively with any and infinite capacity planning,” commented
Capacity Plan graphs and grid. number of planners at the same time. The Demand Solutions president, Bill Harrison. circlesolid
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