High competitive pressure, widely ramified supply chains and changing customer behavior are just a small excerpt from the current and future challenges that companies must adapt to. The aim is always to maintain and expand an efficient and effective supply chain with intelligent production processes in order to use this as a competitive advantage in the end. Due to constant change, processes will have to be adjusted more frequently in the future and adapted to new situations.
Intelligent and automated planning methods can be used to create production plans that take into account machine capacity, personnel capacity, production resources and other limiting resources needed to process an order.
The right stock in the right place at the right time? Inventory reduction with a simultaneous increase in delivery reliability is not a conflict of objectives, but the goal of coordinated inventory planning.
Do you have transparency over all information and data to be able to plan for the long term? A coordinated planning process from strategic to operational planning is essential in today's volatile markets.
The primary objective of a production plan must be to achieve optimum machine occupancy with orders, ensuring short throughput times, low inventories and optimum setup and order sequences, as well as taking material and PRT availability into account.
In order to be able to react to market opportunities, a company must review its production capacities in the medium to long term in order to be able to initiate the procurement of machines, tools or personnel in good time if necessary. Thereby, simulations and what-if scenarios are big advantages.