Connecting the Planner Scheduler with Manufacturing is crucial for robust communication between departments. Our advanced planning and scheduling approach builds a virtual model of an organization, incorporating how each department interacts with the others, and most importantly how each department's activities affect the others.
One of the most powerful uses of our software is the ability to create alternate scenarios that clearly display the potential ripple effect on customer orders and other departments. These 'what-if' scenarios can be adjusted, without publishing them to the entire organization, until they are clear improvements to manufacturing processes. Two examples:
There are also times when departments or plants will collaborate on setting up a new machine, project or product. Our visual displays can answer questions from the team on which method to handle the concern would be best. Agreed upon KPIs can be loaded into the data model and taken into account when planning and scheduling new work. Different suppliers can be tried out, virtually, to come up with a strong plan and a sound schedule.
Empowering the manufacturing process becomes simple, even enjoyable, when using the tools that PlanetTogether software brings to the party.