Management software, or ERP, is now widely used by companies of all types and sectors.
However, manufacturing companies benefit greatly from production planning and scheduling tools that allow them to better manage and organize the main department: production.
Therefore, it is essential that schedulers are better integrated with the existing reality at the time of their installation.
Because schedulers and management systems are integrated
Production scheduling solutions provide planners with additional potential and management skills, compared to mere ERPs.
APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling software) allows companies to use existing data and obtain optimized production plans, which take into account the constraints present in the company and many other factors. In fact, advanced planning tools use the data present in the existing management system, integrating with it and providing extremely useful and valuable outputs.
The integration between scheduler and ERP
ERP systems, or Enterprise Resource Planning, contain information regarding warehouses and customer demand, scheduling software is used to organize the actual production of products. The integration of these two solutions helps to increase operational efficiency. This also increases flexibility and responsiveness to customer requests in terms of customisation.
In order to better schedule, APS software must use updated data that usually comes from the company ERP and possibly from additional tools to support production planning such as Manufacturing Execution Systems.
The quality of the data received as input largely depends on the goodness of the outputs produced by the scheduler: for this reason, the integration phase is particularly delicate and important.
Cybertec’s data exchange interface guarantees a broadly rooted exchange mode, the result of an evolution that has taken place over the years thanks to the experience gained in numerous installations at customers located in many countries around the world.
The impact on corporate information systems is minimal and the results offered to the business are exceptional as well as achieved in a short time. Increasing punctuality, reducing inventory and increasing department efficiency are among the main benefits of a solution that uses a simplified architecture and streamlined integration.
The great experience of the Cybertec integration team makes it possible to better communicate the ERP systems present in companies with the CyberPlan planning and scheduling solution. SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage X3, JDE, Infor, AS400 management systems as well as many others are integrated with the CyberPlan solution on a daily basis with the aim of making the dialogue between the two systems as effective and efficient as possible. For SAP management, the APS CyberPlan solution has built a specific connector certified by SAP to also integrate with SAP 4/HANA and SAP cloud versions. In addition, by becoming part of the Zucchetti group, CyberPlan can now be closely integrated with Zucchetti management systems such as Infinity, ad-hoc and Mago.
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If you would like to learn more about CyberPlan’s advanced scheduling and planning solution and the techniques used for integration with ERPs, please contact us and speak to an expert suitable for your needs.
