Planning and scheduling has always been at the core of manufacturers’ production processes. By arranging, optimising and controlling manufacturing workloads, firms can directly impact their ability to hit delivery deadlines, optimise inventory levels and meet customer service commitments. But for many manufacturers, their planning and scheduling activities and processes haven’t really changed all that much over the years. While most have moved away from antiquated offline charts and wall planners, many persist with spreadsheets, which are inflexible, slow, error-prone and static i.e. they often do not automatically update.
While off-the-shelf-software, spreadsheets in particular, might seem like a quick and easy option for production scheduling, they are simply not powerful enough for effective production management, leaving few opportunities to analyse and optimise. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Now, some manufacturers have taken their production scheduling to the next level by implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)…
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