Advanced Production Planning, Scheduling & Optimization
myPlan4.0 speeds up your ERP by reducing production planning time. It allows you to quickly assess problems and opportunities by simulating the effect of possible decisions so that you can choose those that lead to higher production efficiency, lower inventory level and on time deliveries to customers.
Calculate material and resource requirements in a few seconds starting from budgets, sales forecasts and customer orders. The planning parameters can be calculated and kept up-to-date in an optimal way based on the level of the desired service, the cost and the regularity characteristics of the demand of the individual materials. Thanks to the full pegging capabilities, you can immediately identify the problems and the criticality of the feasibility of production plans and orders and reliably schedule customer orders.
Demand Driven MRP
myPlan allows you to create sales forecasts of finished products, with the possibility of extending their use to the consumption forecasts of semi-finished products or raw materials. Starting from the historical data of sales or consumption, purifying data from particular events such as promotional campaigns or anomalous sales, the sales forecasts are processed using different statistical methods. For each article or product family the best method is identified in order to minimize the forecast error.
Scheduling
Define the production program in detail by scheduling the individual operations according to the delivery constraints, production capacities, material availability and taking into account the priorities defined at commercial level. Choose between different types of scheduling: interactive, automatic or mixed; depending on the company needs, it is possible to evaluate which option is most effective. The automatic mode uses algorithms based on rules and priorities that can be set by the user and it also considers the production constraints of machines, labor and tools and the availability of materials.
Optimization
Define the goal function, combining delivery needs, resource efficiency, stock level. Set capacity constraints, operator skills, tools and the necessary materials. myPlan uses the most advanced constraint programming techniques to find the solution that maximizes the chosen goal function in compliance with the specified constraints. These techniques can be applied both to the planning ( of the quantities to be produced and of the production capacity) and to the scheduling of the operations.
Business Intelligence
In addition to planning, scheduling and optimization, myPlan provides powerful business intelligence and reporting capabilities built through Microsoft Power BI
Simultaneous measurement units planning (pieces, kg.mt, hours, shifts, ..)
MRP / CRP by date / time
Multi-site and multi-warehouse planning
Manage calendars by site and machine
Shelf life management
Management polices for item and family (MTO, ATO, MTS, DDMRP)
Finite capacity planning on bottlenecks
Optimal calculation of parameters such as lot and safety stock
Safety stocks variable over time
Best fit forecasting
Demand Driven MRP Features
Lean Production Planning
Identification of decoupling points
Calculation of the "Decoupled Lead Time"
Calculation of the variability of demand and supply
Calculation of average consumption, past or expected in the future
Calculation of qualified demand
Calculation of stock levels "Top of Green, Yellow, Red"
Time update of stock levels
Seasonality management Management of promotional campaigns
Determination of the "Net Flow Position"
Issue of planned orders for DDMRP articles
MRP explosion of the planned orders DDMRP
Determination of order priorities
Alert signals
Definition of stock targets
Simulation of DDMRP buffers
Scheduling Features
Advanced Production Scheduling
Definition of calendars by machine and operators
Management of set up times by attribute or matrix
Selection of orders / phases to be scheduled
Drag & Drop Gantt technics
Order sequencing based on heuristics
Calculation of delivery and assets utilization performancies
Management of splits and changes to order quantities
Modifications to the scheduled plan in tabular or Gantt form
Highlighting on the Gantt chart of delivery delays, lack of materials, set up
Fast change to the productive capacity of resources
Comparison of scheduling alternatives
Gantt per machine, per order, per order / phase
Optimization Features
Advanced Production Optimization
Use of constraints bases on linear programming
Definition of alternative resources for article/phase/family
Definition of maximum permissible increases in capacity per resource
Objective function of capacity utilization
Calculation of production capacities necessary for resource that optimize the objective function
Definition of the objective order scheduling function
Definition of the weights to be attributed to punctual deliveries, resource saturation, set up
Calculation of start and end dates and assigned resources that optimize the goal function
Management of frozen horizons
Management of the constraints to be considered (overlapping orders and phases, materials, tools, operator skills, interruptibility of the phases, skills of the operators, ...)
