The production planning and scheduling process must synchronize data, people and processes to achieve performance and competitiveness objectives.
The speed of data processing and the creation of different scenarios must support you in making the best decisions to pursue your goals. The speed of processing is therefore a fundamental element to try different scenarios making the process interactive, but also to manage unforeseen events having under control the impacts of decisions.
Tools without processes and people are just tools. But if your company has the right people, equipping them with advanced tools will allow them to make better and faster decisions, greatly increasing business performance.
You will know sooner if something has gone wrong in your supply chain, and you will be able to act faster to correct it, reducing decision latency and improving operational and financial performance. Equally important, it will allow you to spend less time managing the problems and urgencies of your supply chain and more time making it more efficient.
Advanced tools for high-performance planning
The tools that allow you to speed up your production planning and scheduling skills are Advanced Planning & Scheduling software (APS). These software connect directly to the company management system that they use as a data resource, allowing data to be processed in real time, transforming it into useful information, considering all company constraints. The plan processing cycles last a few seconds and give full visibility of the impacts in the various departments and on the KPIs such as resource saturation, service level, set-up times, efficiency, and many others.
Learn more about what an APS is by reading our dedicated article: “Whatis an APS?”
Learn how to speed up your production planning process
If you also want to find out how to make the process of planning, scheduling and scheduling production fast and efficient, then you will surely find the article How to speed up the production planning process interesting.
