Organize, manage, and schedule production activities efficiently across multiple plants and distribution centers.

The Production Planning application gives you a platform to effectively optimize resource utilization, reduce costs, and ensure timely product delivery. Additionally, it helps you track storage capacity, customer demand and supply, and target stock levels.

Create and use different production scenarios to analyze and compare different production strategies and financial impact.

Key components

The important components of the production planning application include:

  1. Core business data: Configure and manage your key business data such as:
    • Production processes, plants, products, and distribution centers.
    • Locations, customers, and finished goods.
    • Storage facilities and bill of material data.
    • Unit costs, shelf lives, and lead times.
    • Supplier data, transportation costs, and resource capacity.
  2. Production planning: Optimize the use of resources, minimize production costs, and ensure timely delivery of products. The key components include:
    • Inventory and safety stock management.
    • Capacity, storage facilities, and raw materials management.
    • Manage and align raw materials, finished products with customer demands.
    • Schedule production processes in plants.
  3. Reporting: Maintain operational efficiency, make informed decisions, and improve overall production management. The key components include: 
    • Control tower page to review and streamline demand and supply, resources and raw materials, shortages, and financial impact.
    • Raw materials, storage facilities, and capacity utilization.
    • Constrained materials and resources management
    • Scenario comparisons.
  4. Production metrics: View, analyze, and make informed decisions to improve resource allocation and inventory management. The key components include:
    • Target inventory violations.
    • Unmet and late demands.
    • Resource utilization thresholds.
  5. Administration: Organize and manage activities that support and enhance the efficiency of production processes. The key components include:
    • Customize and manage global time settings, display preferences, and optimizer behavior.
    • Manage key scenario settings.
    • Review constraint impact on production plan.
    • Delete key data such as customer, resource, and raw material in bulk.