To meet your lean manufacturing goals — to do more and more with less and less — lean planning capabilities are vital. Planning must focus on customer demand today, pulling to the customer due date and synchronizing the flow of material and capacity accordingly. Infor SyteLine APS is a powerful solution that synchronizes the use of work centers, inventory, resources, and supply with customer orders.
With SyteLine APS, you can rely on a solution that is built, serviced, and managed by manufacturing professionals who understand your specific requirements — the need for processes to flow smoothly and without mistakes; unnecessary steps; wasted resources; and waiting downstream because upstream activities are late. Our solution helps you meet this goal by providing seamless advanced planning capabilities, increasing your on-time performance and throughput while reducing inventory and operating costs.
Greater visibility in planning — Our solution provides exceptional visibility into the lean manufacturing plans it creates. You get a continuously visible plan for each order, so that every order “knows” the jobs and POs it needs, and every supply “knows” the demand it supports. You also gain new insight into your inventory and your resources (machines, operators, work centers, cell, and facility utilizations).
Simultaneous materials and resource scheduling — Our solution concurrently plans all materials and capacity needed to satisfy the customer order. It balances available capacity with the actual projected workload without assuming that capacity is unlimited or "infinite." Plans are continually adjusted based on the changing dynamics of your manufacturing environment.
“What-if” capabilities — The “what-if” capabilities of the SyteLine APS engine let users determine the impact of decisions. For example, you can insert a high priority order into your current production plan, add overtime hours, or outsource specific components. The system instantly determines which customer orders will be affected and how delivery timeframes will change.
Real-time promise dates — At the time of order entry, our solution provides the ability to obtain a promise date for the order which considers the finite constraints of both material and capacity. Users only need to perform a Capable to Promise (CTP) check within the order entry screens. This powerful feature gives you real-time date promise capability at both the order header and line detail level.
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At the time of order entry, our solution provides the ability to obtain a promise date for the order which considers the finite constraints of both material and capacity.
