Nowhere are the complexities of supply chain management more extreme than in manufacturing. Manufacturers must meet demand by maximizing their most valuable assets—equipment, people, materials, and capital. But the greatest challenges lie at the heart of their production processes.
Infor SCM Manufacturing Planning delivers advanced capabilities that go beyond those of traditional ERP-based planning to help you make the best use of your production resources, improve efficiencies, increase throughput, and lower costs. Because one size doesn’t fit all, each solution is business specific with industry experience built in, providing laser-focused applications that recognize and solve the essential challenges in your business.
Using Infor’s manufacturing planning solution, a U.S.-based food producer was able to more accurately evaluate the cost trade-offs of different production alternatives and avoid spending several million dollars on an inappropriate scenario.
Dedicated to the industry it serves, Manufacturing Planning combines advanced capabilities with industry-specific functionality to solve challenges conventional systems can’t. Each planning component features multiple constraint-based planning engines that deliver achievable, fully synchronized plans you can adapt to accommodate the realities of capacity, people, and material constraints. The memory-resident planning engines assess millions of combinations in minutes, making them among the fastest available. They are ideal for “what-if” analysis in response to unexpected changes in your plan such as new orders, machine downtime, or late deliveries. An order promiser module enables you to provide accurate, achievable customer promise dates to new inquiries. Components include:
Planner—this constraint-based advanced planning system (APS) for engineering, assembly, and repetitive manufacturing environments ensures realistic and perfectly synchronized manufacturing plans for optimal throughput.
Advanced Planner—this constraint and optimization-based planning system delivers supply chain and manufacturing plans from all possible combinations, considering capacity—and cost—to determine the least-cost supply chain plan.
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