Situation

A food manufacturer works with short product lifecycles within a highly competitive market place. The value of the product disappears within 7-14 days.

Challenges

To maximize shelf time by minimizing production time.

• Short life times of both semi-finished products and finished products.

• Set up and cleaning are significant production factors.

Success

An ideal solution would enable…

• Improvements to scheduling process working methods.

• Faster re-scheduling of new and updated orders.

• Production to minimize set-up times through the support of scheduling rules.

Solution

Provide the planner with a visual production schedule and give them access to advanced planning rules that can help to minimize set up and cleaning times – while also reducing late sales orders.