APS - Advanced Planning and Scheduling

Plan literally thousands of orders to multiple constraints including capacity and materials availability, in minutes!

APS Business Benefits:

• Powerful planning and re-planning in either very large or very fragmented businesses, where changes are frequent
• Ability to consider several alternatives to achieve the ‘best’ plan
• Powerful business modelling and strategic planning capabilities
• Significant cost savings through improved planning performance and decision making.
• Improved speed of response and flexibility, hence business competitiveness

The ability to plan and rapidly re-plan is crucial for success, recent advances in software development make it possible to automatically rapidly calculate and re-calculate manufacturing and sourcing plans to achieve the balance and priorities chosen by the business. This offers a new approach to planning – Advanced Planning Systems.

FastReact APS allows the rapid, automatic allocation and reallocation of orders against available capacity/suppliers in line with pre-defined planning priorities. In each case, the primary capacity constraint, secondary capacity constraints and material availability are all considered in the planning process, to derive the most effective plan.

Speed. The Key to effective planning and replanning is the ability to be able to quickly determine the effect of a new order (or orders) on the plan. With traditional systems this process takes too long to be commercially acceptable, FastReact APS can perform the planning process on thousands of orders, allocating these to available capacity, taking account of materials availability in minutes.

Complimentary to existing Systems. FastReact APS works WITH your existing systems by using the valuable data contained in these systems and providing a powerful planning interface to utilise this data (See Frequently Asked Questions section of the website regarding Interfacing).

Business Benefits. Typical business benefits that can be expected through the installation of the FastReact APS functionlity are as follows:

• Realistic Achievable plan
• Visibility of the Real Demand
• Rapid Response to Customer Demand
• Ability to manage large data volumes – Quickly
• Plan around Materials and Capacity Constraints simultaneously
• Manage volatile demand effectively
• Ability to perform True Capable to Promise