Trends in APS

Demand forecasting is the process of predicting what the demand for certain products will be in the future. It identifies what both current and future customers will want to buy and tells manufacturing facilities what they should actually produce.

Factory Scheduling, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Material, capacity planning, production planning, finite capacity, project management, supply chain, Forecasting, opportunity, scheduling, JIT, Demand Forecasting

A major challenge within any given supply chain is adequately coordinating its various components so that you have the correct amount of materials, equipment capacity, and labor required to complete production with optimal efficiency.

Factory Scheduling, Lean Manufacturing, production planning, APS, supply chain, control design, scheduling, JIT, IoT, sequencing, planner, enterprise resource planning, Demand Forecasting

Production Planning and Control (PPC) is a term used to describe two strategies: production planning and production control. PPC is an essential component of operations management as it enables production facilities to optimize the utilization of...

Gantt, KPI, capacity planning, production planning, project management, APS, supply chain, control design, scheduling, JIT, resource, MRP, changeover, sequencing, planner, enterprise resource planning, integration