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Excellent constraint and capacity management
In 2004 Tex decided it needed to address the problem and after an initial review of a number of planning systems the company was given a presentation by Preactor showing the capability and benefits of the system. More importantly, the company could see how Preactor could work in its own planning situation. “Preactor clearly had excellent constraint and capacity management, was easy to integrate to our existing database and was obviously user friendly,” said Sentance. “We were also impressed by its ability to plan secondary operations.”
A decision was therefore made in 2004 to invest in Preactor and after a successful go-live, the company saw an immediate benefit from the dramatic increase in visibility and
accuracy of information across the entire planning process. “Not only could we see any problems before they occurred,” said Sentance, “we now had the flexibility and agility to respond to short-term changes in demand as well as any issues with a given resource.”
Other key benefits Preactor has brought are
substantial savings in both time and cost with the
weekly plan now only taking 2 to 3 hours instead of 2 to 3 days. Not only is this a direct time saving, it also means that this time can then be invested in further developing and refining the plan to generate even better planning efficiencies. The ability to plan secondary constraints and operations has also saved
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time because the company can now accurately factor in, for example, accurate drying times for different products in- between operations as opposed to using approximations. One notable cost saving is in the area of stock reduction, especially buffer stocks. In terms of overall stock levels, the company estimates that Preactor has helped reduced this by 30 to 40 per cent with labour costs within the planning department having also been reduced by
an even more impressive 50 per cent.
Sentance concluded: “The benefits we have achieved are exactly in line with the reasons we bought the system. We now have complete visibility across the entire plan – at the production floor level and also in Customer Services – and are making better use of our capacity by minimising our constraints.”
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