Inventory, Labor & Tooling Constraints

Manufacturers face numerous constraints on a daily basis as they strive to ship orders on-time and at minimum cost. If equipment, labor and materials were unlimited life would be much easier. However, the reality in this globally competitive manufacturing landscape is that production managers and planners have limited resources with which to work. PlanetTogether gives you the tools to maximize your utilization of limited resources by creating schedules that take all of your resources into account as schedules are optimized around your business drivers.

Advantages:

• Material availability constrains operation schedules based on current inventory levels and projected purchase order receipt dates, for realistic schedules and reduced time evaluating what can be worked on and what is waiting for materials.
• Subcomponent and intermediate work orders can have due-dates automatically calculated and prioritized based on top-level requirements. This greatly simplifies data management and enables the system to plan all of your activities based on customer promise dates and priorities without having to manually update sub-work order due dates manually.
• Machine capacity adjusts schedules automatically based on working hours and when equipment is taken down for maintenance or repair.
• When production workers are absent schedules can be automatically adjusted and work off-loaded to other personnel.
• If tooling is limited, schedules will take this into account to avoid over-scheduling of limited tools even if enough machines or labor are available.
• Whether labor, equipment, tools, materials (or any combination thereof) are limiting factors, they are scheduled accurately (even during drag-and-drop) so schedules are always reliable and can be followed by the shop floor.
• While most of your constraints can be handled “out of the box” by PlanetTogether, you may have requirements that are particular to only your business. No problem! PlanetTogether’s constraints are fully customizable with .Net add-ins that we can build for you and that upgrade smoothly with new releases of the software.

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