For complex planning & scheduling activities - especially those that are heavily constrained or require multi-stage scheduling and frequent re-scheduling - our experience is that most software systems are rigid, with preset objectives, logic, and scope, and which struggle to fit core business requirements and processes. Our Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) system is flexible enough to handle highly-specific constraints, business rules, and processes, allowing for optimisation of a wide variety of planning & scheduling activities, including:
- Production-line planning, scheduling, and sequencing
- Workforce planning and crew rostering
- Maintenance planning & scheduling
- Equipment planning & scheduling
Features and benefits of our APS system include:
- Creating schedules that are optimised for cost, profit, or client-defined objectives (service levels, utilization, etc.)
- Increased delivery on time and in full (DIFOT)
- Reduced work-in-progress and finished goods inventory
- Reduced planning time
- Dynamically re-optimising around unexpected changes in demand and other events
- Conducting financial what-if analysis and scenario comparison
- Setting more than one objective/goal and analysing the trade-offs
- Centralising the planning and scheduling function across multiple plants
- Optimising across multiple production stages or steps
- Evaluating the impact of your business rules, processes, and constraints
- Seamless connection with your existing databases, MRP/ERP systems, and other enterprise software
What our customers say
"We believe that SolveIT Software's Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) system will increase productivity, utilisation, and service levels across the multiple stages of production and packaging at our bottling sites in Australia and New Zealand. The deployment of SolveIT Software's enterprise applications for vintage intake planning, tank farm optimisation, and production-line scheduling are part of our plan to optimise our end-to-end supply chain."
Mr Brett McKinnonManaging Director
Orlando Wines
"After reviewing a number of software packages for constrained production planning and scheduling, we ultimately selected SolveIT Software's APS system. During the tender process SolveIT Software was able to demonstrate the functionality of its APS system using Amcor data, proving it could handle all of our business rules and constraints in a very easy-to-use graphical environment. Overall, SolveIT Software's APS system represented the best value and best fit for our business."
Mr Tim JohnsonGeneral Manager
Amcor Glass