Be on top of your job schedules for optimum resource utilization and minimal costs.
OmegaCube ERP’s Production Planning and Scheduling module automate planning & scheduling workflows considering all available resources such as machines, materials, and manpower. It ensures optimum inventory levels, uninterrupted production, improved capacity utilization, and on-time delivery to customers.
- Improve on-time delivery by driving production schedules based on manufacturing lead time and predicting process steps that are running late.
- Optimize supply planning based on demand due dates.
- Provide accurate ship date to customers by utilizing planning data for Available-to-promise calculations.
- Improve planning by integrating EDI releases, sales orders, and stock order.
- Determine capacity requirements using forecast, confirmed orders, stock orders.
- Improve operator productivity by providing them alerts for material shortage, expediting work orders, and inventory moves.
Key Features
Scheduling and Manufacturing Execution
- Analyze current and future load on work centers and departments.
- Automatically update dispatch list after scheduling run.
- Predict and alert shop floor operators about late running work orders.
- Link machine and employee expertise in capacity calculations.
- Utilize backward and forward scheduling algorithm for efficient scheduling.
- Drive scheduling based on material availability.
- Automatically adjust work order due dates, based on sales order due dates, when work orders are linked.
- Queue and move hours incorporated into scheduling calculations.
- Utilize data from time reporting to compute progress and determine on-time completions.
Flexible Capacity
- Define capacity based on employee hours, individual machines or groups of machines, shift, day and month.
- Use company calendar to specify working days, holidays and use for scheduling and MRP.
- Specify shifts and capacity for each capacity family and/or machines
- Adjust capacity for each day, month, shift.
- Link tool and machine downtime into capacity calculations.
Scheduler Functions
- Adjust capacity by shift, day or month.
- Analyze load in capacity centers by day, month, percentage or hours.
- Review Gantt chart to see how the work orders will progress in time.
- Analyze short-term and long-term capacity.
- Monitor what work orders are running late.
Shop Floor Communication and Manufacturing Execution
- Dispatch list by department automatically adjusts based on scheduling output.
- Work execution managed by communicating what work orders can be started, or are about to move into the department.
- Operator can pull drawings, routing instructions etc. directly from the dispatch list.
- Time reporting allows dispatch list to communicate progress on a work order.
- Balance hours are automatically computed and notifications generated – if work order is running late.
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