Production Planning

Your organization needs to optimize production operations and better manage constraints and costs to:

  • Reduce manufacturing costs
  • Minimize shop floor interruptions
  • Limit product waste
  • Improve customer satisfaction

Key Challenges

  • Insufficient forecast accuracy - Due to erratic customer behavior, forecasts are often inaccurate which requires frequent re-planning of the production plan

  • Changing customer orders - Your organization is often impacted with order changes that include new specifications, quantities and other modifications which can increase costs and unplanned downtime

  • Excessive bottlenecks - These obstructions cause your company severe delays and disrupt workflow, resulting in decreased productivity and quality deficiencies that cause unnecessary waste

Capabilities

  • Visibility
  • QAD’s solution provides visibility to the planner on the entire plan via intuitive planning workbenches for improving bottleneck identification and management.
  • Constraint based optimization
  • Your organization can holistically synchronize materials flow and resource utilization across multistage, multisite production environments respecting all required constraints.

  • Simulation
  • You can access a simulation workbench for what-if scenarios and simulation planning to easily assess the impact of changes to capacity, run rate/efficiency or alternate demand plans.
  • Planning methodologies
  • Your organization can leverage a number of planning methods including finite capacity, APS/MRPII for forecast driven planning, lean manufacturing/Kanban for automotive, theory of constraints and others.

ADM Improves Quality of Sales Forecasts

The specialist in animal nutrition boosts customer service levels and reduces inventory with improved sales forecast accuracy.

ARaymond Redefines Business Processes for Its Supply Chain

The leader in the automotive market achieved greater reliability in forecasts, cost savings and improved collaboration with QAD Demand Planning, Distribution Planning and Production Planning.

Maroquinerie Thomas Achieves Greater Flexibility to Keep Up with the Challenges of the Luxury and Fashion Sectors

The manufacturer of leather goods achieves a more flexible, collaborative and efficient supply chain with Production Planning and Procurement Planning.

The QAD tools are efficient, enabling us to carry out rapid, detailed, accurate and reliable analysis which is, in a word, relevant. Our Service levels were maintained while the longest lead-time was reduced from 14 to 6 weeks.

Planning and Procurement Manager - Mumm Perrier Jouët

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