Manufacturing
Customers from Manufacturing industries accelerate their transition towards Industry 4.0, adopting Enterprise Lean Planning methodologies thanks to PlanningForce.
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Manufacturing
Customers from Manufacturing industries accelerate their transition towards Industry 4.0, adopting Enterprise Lean Planning methodologies thanks to PlanningForce.
Industries
Manufacturing
Best in Class Manufacturers are digitally transforming towards industry 4.0 with PlanningForce. PlanningForce builds a much stronger connection between Sales & Operations. Its very quick planning engine and seamless connection with the ERP system enables the company to quickly confirm timing feasibility in the sales process and to reliably meet promised delivery times, while also optimizing supply orders, resource utilization and cash-flow management.
Leverage PlanningForce Manufacturing to reduce costs and achieve greater commercial and production agility.
The use of PlanningForce Manufacturing as a central planning system, integrated with the ERP and other Information System tools, makes it possible to integrate, automate and optimize key processes and management flows. These flows include sales, production, resources, procurement, and logistics to achieve a fully automated order to production process, raising commercial effectiveness and virtually eliminating delivery delays.
Leverage PlanningForce Manufacturing to reduce costs and achieve greater commercial and production agility.
The use of PlanningForce Manufacturing as a central planning system, integrated with the ERP and other Information System tools, makes it possible to integrate, automate and optimize key processes and management flows. These flows include sales, production, resources, procurement, and logistics to achieve a fully automated order to production process, raising commercial effectiveness and virtually eliminating delivery delays.
Your Advantages
Make the most of scarce resources
In a context of discrete manufacturing, volatility and uncertainty are daily occurrences.
Managing manufacturing activities means managing many types of incidents and interruptions due to supply delays, changes in priority, prototypes to be inserted, machine stoppages (some scheduled, others less so) and absences of critical resources.
Discrete manufacturing productions are also characterized by small production batches that lead to many changes in machine setup.
This, in a context where resources are limited (because they are expensive and scarce) and where zero shortcomings must be the norm.
A powerful scheduling engine
With PlanningForce, this complexity is on the one hand modeled, and on the other hand processed automatically by the planning engine which has been designed to take into account all the constraints that weigh on the planning of industrial production activities.
PlanningForce’s proprietary calculation engine takes into account all project requirements as well as overall resource capacity. It does so to calculate an optimal allocation match between them. It therefore generates a resource-constrained schedule, while also taking into account priorities, resource levels, risks, historical values, and estimated changes in time.
It finds optimal plans for thousands of tasks in just a few seconds, using combinations of heuristic algorithms and applying advanced automatic resource leveling.
Sales & Operations are dynamically connected
PlanningForce builds a much stronger connection between sales & operations. Its very quick planning engine and seamless connection with the ERP system enables the acceleration of timing feasibility confirmation in the sales process to near real time. It also improves reliability as companies meet promised delivery dates.
By supporting powerful simulation capabilities at all planning horizons, PlanningForce becomes a sort of Digital Twin applied to the management of the company. It then allows the company to test multiple scenarios and to measure their impact on a large variety of Key Performance Indicators.
The data model and the capture of relevant data at every step of the value chain feed a data warehouse. This enables advanced analytics and nurtures ongoing improvement.
Your Advantages
Make the most of scarce resources
In a context of discrete manufacturing, volatility and uncertainty are daily occurrences.
Managing manufacturing activities means managing many types of incidents and interruptions due to supply delays, changes in priority, prototypes to be inserted, machine stoppages (some scheduled, others less so) and absences of critical resources.
Discrete manufacturing productions are also characterized by small production batches that lead to many changes in machine setup.
This, in a context where resources are limited (because they are expensive and scarce) and where zero shortcomings must be the norm.
A powerful scheduling engine
With PlanningForce, this complexity is on the one hand modeled, and on the other hand processed automatically by the planning engine which has been designed to take into account all the constraints that weigh on the planning of industrial production activities.
PlanningForce’s proprietary calculation engine takes into account all project requirements as well as the overall resource capacity. It does so to calculate an optimal allocation match between them. It therefore generates a resource-constrained schedule, while also taking into account priorities, resource levels, risks, historical values, and estimated changes in time.
It finds optimal plans for thousands of tasks in just a few seconds, using combinations of heuristic algorithms and applying advanced automatic resource leveling.
Sales & Operations are dynamically connected
PlanningForce builds a much stronger connection between sales & operations. Its very quick planning engine and seamless connection with the ERP system enables the acceleration of timing feasibility confirmation in the sales process to near real time. It also improves reliability as companies meet promised delivery dates.
By supporting powerful simulation capabilities at all planning horizons, PlanningForce becomes a sort of Digital Twin applied to the management of the company. It then allows the company to test multiple scenarios and to measure their impact on a large variety of Key Performance Indicators.
The data model and the capture of relevant data at every step of the value chain feed a data warehouse. This enables advanced analytics and nurtures ongoing improvement.
CASE STUDIES
Our experience
Stas chooses PlanningForce to automate and
optimize its S&OP process in conjunction with its proprietary ERP system … and becomes “Factory of the Future”. Stunning result !
Lefort chooses PlanningForce to simultaneously plan all projects in production. The result is better resource utilization, an improved S&OP process and faster and clearer reporting.
Irepa Laser chooses PlanningForce to plan its production and all human and non-human resources involved in the planning & scheduling process. The solution is dynamically interfaced with several third-party systems, including SAGE.
TESTIMONIAL
The strong points of PlanningForce for Bridgestone Europe are: the greater visibility on the portfolio, the optimization of prototyping processes, the better management of requisitions, the reduction in administrative work, the overall improved planning processes and a better resource management And, above all, PlanningForce is a standard solution!
