Advanced planning and scheduling

Advanced planning functionality considers forecast and long-term orders, supports decision making about feasibility and affects the general direction of production operations. Put simply, advanced planning and scheduling supports decisions surrounding extending the workforce, resource capacity and factories. It helps manufacturers determine what and how much to make, where and when to make it, and exactly what resources are required. Production planning can be executed in finite or infinite capacity mode and planning time periods can be days, weeks, months or a combination of all three.

Advanced scheduling functionality considers the availability of resources and additional constraints, such as tooling and materials to ensure an accurate model of the manufacturing environment. Advanced Scheduling schedules orders using intelligent built-in rules. Advanced Scheduling provides decision-making support for overtime, order prioritization, split production batches, due date negotiation and order processing.

Advanced planning and scheduling oversees numerous aspects of a production environment, including:

• Master Production Schedule creation
• Bill of Materials (BOM) level planning
• Interactive schedule visualization
• Make-to-order planning
• Make-to-stock planning
• Advanced constraint modeling
• Advanced material handling
• Advance schedule optimization
• Assembly process visualization
• Interactive schedule viewing
• Order-based multi-constraint scheduling