Planning and Scheduling
Key Benefits
- Improve on-time delivery by driving production schedules based on manufacturing lead times and proactive alerts about delayed processes.
- Improve planning by integrating EDI releases, sales orders, and stock orders.
- Optimize supply planning based on demand due dates.
- Determine capacity requirements using forecasts, confirmed orders, and stock orders.
- Provide accurate ship dates to customers by utilizing planning data for available-to-promise calculations.
- Improve operator productivity by providing them alerts for material shortages, expediting work orders, and inventory movements.
Key Features
Scheduling & Manufacturing Execution
- Analyze current and future load on work centers and departments.
- Automatically update dispatch list after scheduling run.
- Predict and alert shop floor operators about late running work orders.
- Link machine and employee expertise in capacity calculations.
- Utilize backward and forward scheduling algorithms for efficient scheduling.
- Drive scheduling based on material availability.
- Automatically adjust work order due dates, based on sales order due dates, when work orders are linked.
- Queue and move hours incorporated into scheduling calculations.
- Utilize data from time reporting to compute progress and determine on-time completions.
Flexible Capacity
- Define capacity based on employee hours, individual machines or groups of machines, shift, day, and month.
- Use the company calendar to specify working days, and holidays and use it for scheduling and MRP.
- Specify shifts and capacity for each capacity family and/or machines
- Adjust capacity for each day, month, and shift.
- Link tool and machine downtime into capacity calculations.
Scheduler Functions
- Adjust capacity by shift, day, or month.
- Analyze load in capacity centers by day, month, percentage or hours.
- Review the Gantt chart to see how the work orders will progress in time.
- Monitor what work orders are running late.
Shop Floor Communication And Manufacturing Execution
- Dispatch list by department automatically adjusts based on scheduling output.
- Work execution is managed by communicating what work orders can be started, or are about to move into the department.
- The operator can pull drawings, routing instructions, etc. directly from the dispatch list.
- Time reporting allows the dispatch list to communicate progress on a work order.
- Balance hours are automatically computed and notifications are generated – if the work order is running late.
Our Customers are Our Purpose and Our Strength
With OmegaCube ERP, we have expanded their production schedule by 7 times i.e., from one day to one week. Previously, the crew would know the scheduling only for the following day. However, with the ERP they know what to do for the entire week. They also have an approximate production schedule for the next 30 days but that keeps adjusting based on various factors.”
We would cross our fingers and hope for the best. Now we have a realistic assessment of whether the job can be done on time. OmegaCube allows us to update our individual work center schedules every 90 seconds, ensuring that our employees are always working on the most critical demand schedules at any given point during the day.”
We have to coordinate truckloads of steel, castings and other components from foreign suppliers, and PowerERP helps us balance, plan and schedule our ordering and inventory movements.”
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FAQ
Material Requirement Planning (MRP) in OmegaCube ERP helps manufacturers to accurately calculate the number of materials and components to manufacture a product. The calculation takes into account, the total number of orders in hand, existing inventory levels, and the delivery due date. Based on these parameters, material procurement is initiated from approved suppliers.
Shop Floor Management in OmegaCube ERP helps manufacturers to get a real-time view of their shop floor operations, track & improve resource utilization, improve yield quality, meet compliance standards, reduce machine breakdown/idle time and improve overall efficiency.
Manufacturing Execution System (MES) in OmegaCube ERP tracks, communicates, and controls minute-by-minute updates of shop floor operations and manufacturing workflows. With technology integration such as Nesting, Machine Monitoring, Barcode & labeling, CAD, and Shipping applications, manufacturers can take proactive decisions based on comprehensive data updates.
