Solution
Production Planning
Manage production operations end to end — from bill of materials and routing to capacity planning, work orders and shop-floor tracking. Fully integrated with sales, purchasing and inventory; efficient, transparent and data-driven production.
Challenges you face
Sound familiar?
This module is built to remove the everyday operational pains below.
- The bill of materials and operation routing for the product aren't standardized, so cost calculations come out inconsistent.
- Because you plan without considering machine and labor capacity, bottlenecks and stoppages occur.
- You can't see the status of work orders or the occupancy/fault state of stations in real time.
- Scrap and waste during production aren't tracked accurately, so they're reflected incorrectly in costs.
- Efficiency losses continue because you can't analyze the variance between planned and actual time.
Capabilities
What can you do with Production Planning?
The core capabilities that digitize your processes end to end.
Bill of materials and routing definitions
Define raw material bills of materials (BOM) and operation routings for each product; manage recycling and scrap with teardown BOMs as well.
Capacity and scheduling
Create new plans, planned production runs and a production schedule that takes machine and labor capacity into account.
Pending planning
List approved but unplanned work orders and orders; distribute the workload effectively by seeing priority jobs.
Work orders
Define each production job as a work order containing materials, routing and planned dates; give the shop-floor team a clear roadmap.
Station and shift management
Monitor station states (idle, busy, faulty) in real time; manage operation start-end times and shift plans.
Production reports and dynamic analysis
Measure efficiency with production process, standard-vs-actual time, operation and work-order reports; see product profitability by combining with financial data.
Outcomes
What it delivers for your business
Concrete gains that show up in daily operations when set up right.
- Guarantee accurate cost calculations with BOM and routing standardization.
- Reduce unplanned stoppages and bottlenecks with capacity-based scheduling.
- Make production transparent by collecting shop-floor data in real time.
- Pinpoint the source of efficiency losses with planned-vs-actual variance analysis.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Raw material bills of materials (BOM) and operation routings that organize the flow of the production process are defined for each finished or semi-finished product; the required time, labor and cost information is entered into the system.
You can build the most efficient production schedule considering machine and labor capacities, and prioritize work orders pending planning.
Production planning works fully integrated with sales, purchasing, inventory and MRP, ensuring uninterrupted information flow across the value chain.
You can record scrap, waste and reject materials produced during manufacturing to track these losses and reflect them accurately in production costs.
Let's configure Production Planning around your business
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