SIMULTANEOUS PRODUCTION PLANNING
SIMULTANEOUS PLANNING IN SERIES PRODUCTION
Growing product portfolios, on-time deliveries and high-quality standards pose ever-growing challenges for companies. Attempts to conform to these challenges result in smaller batch sizes, exhausted capacities, and higher stocks. Planning managers achieve cost-optimized production planning with a simultaneous planning approach; that looks at all the influencing factors simultaneously and synchronizes them across the entire internal supply chain.
ADVANTAGES
of the Simultaneous Production Planner
Cost-optimal
OVERALL PLANNING
Planning with respect to
LIMITED CAPACITIES
Increased adherence to
DELIVERY DATES
REDUCE
inventories
Flexible adaptation to
INCREASING
product variety
Avoid manual
REPLANNING
more than
20 Years
of experience in project support
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF SIMULTANEOUS PRODUCTION PLANNING?
With the classic planning method, for example the MRP concept, cost optimality is a difficult goal to achieve. This is because step-by-step planning involves checking material availability and machine capacities one after the other. In addition, planning is based on unlimited capacities and permanent availabilities. As a result, missing raw materials and necessary semi-finished goods as well as capacity overloads lead to manual rescheduling, which in turn causes delivery delays. This kind of procedure cannot be cost-efficient.
With simultaneous production planning, you can precisely identify these problems at an early stage and initiate the necessary steps in all involved areas of the internal supply chain.
20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
HOW CAN PRODUCTION PLANNING BE OPTIMIZED IN YOUR BUSINESS?
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PLAN SIMULTANEOUSLY AND YOUR PRODUCTION WILL RUN SMOOTHLY
ADD*ONE Supply Chain Management
Dr. Babor GmbH & Co. KG
Success Story – Dr. Babor GmbH & Co. KG
BABOR is a leading international brand of professional cosmetics and a family business to this day
Challenges:
- Growing product diversity in the cosmetics industry
- Limited shelf life of natural raw materials
- Capacity bottlenecks in production
Results:
- Multi-level consideration of capacitive feasibility as well as the availability of the goods in one step
- Improved visualization and data transparency
- Increased flexibility through forecast security
- Easy controlling process due to the graphical representation of results
"Through the high transparency, the objective is to be proactive instead of just reacting. From the huge amount of information, we can now quickly create selections and generate analyses."
Rupert Freutsmiedl, Director Supply Chain Management at Babor
Kabelwerk Eupen AG
Success Story – Kabelwerk Eupen AG
Kabelwerk Eupen AG is one of Europe's leading cable manufacturers and one of the few that covers all production steps from raw material to the deployment at the customers' sites.
Challenges:
- Shortages in machine capacity
- Punctual delivery
- Pre-production for the annual production vacations in July
Results:
- Reduction of rare shortages by a further 41%
- Service level increase to 95.5% with a simultaneous inventory reduction by 15%
- Integration of production planning with ADD*ONE and detailed planning in the APS system
- Optimized pre-production for the vacation time
- Increased competitiveness through reliable deadline commitments and fast scheduling, demand-oriented production, and a more flexible planning
"We have gained tremendous flexibility through ADD*ONE Simultaneous Production Planner and are much closer to our daily business now. We were able to reduce rare delivery delays by another 41% - we now always produce the right amount at the right time. Our planning results now have the highest quality."
Michael Göbels, plant manager of the pipe mill at Kabelwerk Eupen
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