The key to an efficient, high-performing process lies in raising the digitalization level of your business. Supported by modern software, digitalization enables optimal processing of planning and control tasks; seamless integration with the ERP and MES systems delivers complete, up-to-date information and permits automated writeback of planning results.
Such a modernization effort also benefits collaboration, because workflows can be coordinated across business units more easily. Workflow-based processes let you react more quickly and help to prevent planning errors. In sum, a higher degree of digital process maturity is a milestone on the road to dynamic end-to-end planning – the end goal that any business management should be striving for.
The required changes in performance and efficiency can be achieved by introducing software applications like Advanced Planning Systems (APS). These applications feature AI-based support tools that far outperform traditional PPC systems. APS systems enable detailed, more efficient production planning and control.
They produce highly realistic planning outputs and rely on optimization algorithms to automatically take any capacity constraints into account.
An APS solution lets your planners simulate scenarios, analyze plan feasibility and fine-tune plan variants to reach the ideal production plan. The software drastically increases the agility of your production planning because it also permits short-term (re-)scheduling. All impacts on machine and staff capacity are automatically taken into account.
