Scheduling that lets you get the most out of your manufacturing assets.

Boost performance by optimizing changeovers and inventory to align production with cash, cost, and service goals. Get back your most valuable asset — time.

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Cloud-based production scheduling

Digital transformation​ is​​ ​happening ​across ​supply chains around the world to keep up with today’s challenges. ​D​on’t let the factory be your last digital frontier.

Manufacturing must be responsive, agile, and predictable for supply chains to be fully resilient. Using a cloud-based production scheduling platform that’s easy to deploy and easy to use, customers are transforming their production scheduling, removing waste, responding to disruptions and getting the most out of their supply chain investments.

Shop talk in the boardroom

Embed executive decisions in your schedules – Shop floor performance gets the boardroom’s attention.

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Manage Change

Respond to disruptions in time to make a difference

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Enhance Service

Get your customers what they need even when disruptions happen
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Reduce Cost

Spend less on fixing issues caused by poor scheduling and unexpected change

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Save Time

Get time back for more productive activities rather than working overtime

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Increase Cash

Maximize your inventory and capital investments

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Embrace Sustainability

Reduce your carbon footprint by right-sizing inventories and eliminating waste

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01.  Advanced Scheduling

Schedule your plants with confidence

Optimize production efficiency by easily deciding what products to make on each line and sequencing them to minimize changeovers, while balancing working capital, service, cost, and sustainability objectives.

Customers see upwards of 50% reduction in the number of changeovers, changeover time​,​ and a 5-30% increase in throughput rates​.​

Schedule so plants consistently meet business goals under normal and disrupted conditions and deliver optimal manufacturing performance.

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Align plans with the rest of the business

Calculate common scheduling and planning parameters, and harmonize these with ERP and planning systems, so that schedules are executable and can deliver optimal manufacturing performance.
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Make it easy to schedule

Schedule with ease and deliver results quickly. Real-time scheduling communications ensures everyone is in sync with the latest scheduling decisions.
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Configure changeover rules

With an attribute-based changeover model, configure changeover rules and run rates to model schedule performance and get feedback on the impact of schedule changes.
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Minimize changeovers

Use Genetic Algorithm AI to schedule related products together, in the best sequence, with visibility to all attributes to can maximize production efficiencies and minimize costly changeovers.
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Respond to capacity challenges

Get visibility to the raw materials and resources needed for your schedule. Alerts notify you when there are schedule problems due to conflicts. Respond ​effectively ​to capacity challenges.
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Manage resources and raw materials

Encode operating strategies and institutional knowledge into the scheduling software to enable training of new schedulers​, governance, operational process consistency,​ and backup coverage.
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02.  Product Wheel Design

Predictable scheduling for an unpredictable supply chain

Product Wheel principles bring predictability and the economies of repetition to your scheduling. Production will fall into regular, repeating cycles, extending this stability throughout the supply chain.

This gives you the ability to make confident decisions when managing rush orders, equipment failures or resource issues.

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Leverage Aligned Product Wheels™

Define the optimum sequences, cycle times, frequencies, and inventory targets for each SKU. Generate schedules that are aligned with the business’s customer service, throughput, and inventory goals.
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Automate scheduling

Automatically generate production sequences, and optimized rescheduling when dealing with disruptions. The attribute-based changeover model is easy to maintain and stays accurate.
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Quickly analyze production scheduling options

Schedulers can create new schedules in seconds leveraging Aligned Product Wheel™ capabilities. Easily reschedule and immediately see the time and cost impacts.
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Automate the most common actions

Automatically re-arrange the schedule, for example extending a run into downtime, moving a run to the start of the next uptime, rescheduling to minimize changeovers, or producing just in time.
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03.  Operating Strategy Design

Bring the boardroom to the shopfloor

Operating Strategy Design unites the boardroom with the shop floor by enabling you to synchronize cash, cost and service goals with production strategies. Evaluate trade-offs with business goals to engineer the best production designs that maximize results.

The balance and trade-offs can be different for different products and families in different regions or for different time periods in seasonal businesses.

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Optimize inventory levels

Set inventory targets based on wheel parameters to protect manufacturing from demand and supply variability, balancing working capital, service and cost objectives.
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Run simulations to determine optimal operating strategy

Use goal seeking simulations to recommend safety stock levels that support cash, cost and service targets. Consider all inputs like frequencies, lot sizes, demand and supply variability and fill rate targets.
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Optimize cycle times

Harmonize cycle times to ensure practical repetitive schedules that are well accepted by all. Optimize cycle times where the frequencies accommodate high volume, low volume and make to order products, and are personalized for families and individual SKUs.
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Instant impact with the power of innovative scheduling

Changeovers and incorrect inventory levels waste significant time and money, and affect customer service. Advanced scheduling enables you to minimize waste and align production, ensuring manufacturing is not the weak link in building a resilient supply chain.

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