Key challenges that many organisations struggle to overcome include:

• Understanding capacity – How do capacity constraints affect the production plan?

• The impact of materials – At what point will a shortage of materials affect production and how?

• On-time delivery – Can accurate delivery dates be provided on request, and can those delivery dates be met?

• “What-if” scenarios – What affect will prioritizing a new order have on other orders?

• Planning efficiency – Is the planning process fast enough to keep pace with the rate of change within production and across the wider supply chain?

• Knowledge access – Is enough knowledge built into the system, or is there too much reliance on the experience of individual production planners?

Optimal supply chain management requires control and visibility across many areas, including Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), materials sourcing, supplier monitoring, planning and scheduling.

We provide this holistic perspective together with the technical aspects required to ensure your supply chain generates sustainable value. Effective change management, starting with feasibility studies and benefits & value mapping, together with an optimal planning and scheduling solution ensure you achieve the key success factors:

• Visualization – Visualizing planning data, together with order and material relationships, allows you to quickly identify issues and potential problems.

• Capacity utilization – Ensure resources, such as machines and personnel, are better utilized and bottlenecks are easily detected.

• Material control – Supervising material linkages and alerts allows you to stay ahead of any potential material shortages or excess stock.

• Reaction speed – “What-if” capability enables alternative scenarios to be explored before deciding on the best solution.

• Coordination – Linking supply, production and sales activities means key personnel can collaborate effectively.

• Change – Ensure everyone adapts to the new way of working regarding purchasing, planning and scheduling.

Partnering with PlantVision to streamline and improve your supply chain management can help you to operate more efficiently, work to a higher standard, and reduce organizational stress.

Benefits for your organization:

• Increase delivery precision and improve customer service.
• Lower stock levels – synchronize purchasing with an achievable schedule.
• Minimize work in progress – shorten make span time / issue materials when needed, not before.
• Increase productivity – make better use of existing capacity, equipment and personnel.

Benefits for Purchasers, Planners and Schedulers:

• Create new production plans quickly and easily.
• Immediately see if and where problems exist.
• Easily compare plans and choose the best alternative.
• Quickly confirm the delivery date for a new order.
• Share the live production schedule with colleagues.
• See effects of late purchase orders.
• Decrease raw material stock.