Trends in APS

In supply chain management, obstacles are presented daily. These obstacles hold a facility back from reaching it’s true potential - and also cost money. Fortunately, with every obstacle, there is a solution. Figuring out these issues will allow...

Factory Scheduling, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, capacity planning, management, project management, supply chain, agility, capacity, constraint, scheduling, MRP, multi-plant, Demand Forecasting, minimize waste, Material Requirement Planning, Capacity Modeling, workload, challenges in supply chain

For manufacturing and production industries, there is a finite amount of product that can be produced or stored in any given time interval, for that period. It is the like the Goldilocks principle of having a capacity plan that is "just right." ...

Reschedule activity, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Lean Manufacturing, capacity planning, control design, constraint, scheduling, JIT, MRP, theory of constraints, enterprise resource planning, ingredients, multi-plant, Demand Forecasting, Material Requirement Planning, Capacity Modeling, workload

No matter how prepared a company is, materials will not be fully utilized, ultimately leading to waste. According to the Lean Enterprise Research Center (LERC), 60% of activities through production is waste, which has a loss of value to the...

Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Lean Manufacturing, production planning, food manufacturing, minimize waste