Planning in line with reality in production
Are you still planning against unlimited capacities and have to manually reconcile overruns and capacity limits? Do you find it difficult to keep track of the enormous complexity resulting from the network of orders, including dependencies? If so, abas APS can provide effective support. abas APS takes limited capacities into account with the help of detailed calendars, qualifications, sequences, or priority characteristics as well as alternative resources, and offers functionalities for set-up optimization. abas APS provides a realistic overview and the necessary control for complex manufacturing processes in mid-market companies.
Graphical planning for better control
As a control center, abas APS offers you different views for role-specific visualization of data relevant to planning. The resource view provides a quick overview of your production utilization in a Gantt chart. Conflicts such as overlapping machine use can be easily identified and resolved simply by directly moving them via drag & drop. The production order and customer order views offer maximum transparency for all order contexts and due dates You can monitor the utilization of your resources during a specific period using the capacity utilization view. A traffic light system provides quick information about your capacity situation. Are additional capacities required, for example, in the form of additional shifts? This and other questions about capacity requirements are answered by the Queue view.
Simulation and resource optimization
With abas APS, you plan interactively. Optimizations can not only be made manually via drag & drop, but also using automatic optimization runs. As soon as you change sequences and priorities or specify alternative resources, your production plan is updated within a few seconds. You can set up different planning scenarios and adopt the plan the application suggests. Did you suddenly receive an order form an important customer that should now have the highest priority? You can simulate this, evaluate the effects on other orders and, if the result is satisfactory, transfer the optimized production plan to production. This enables you to react to changes and realign your production in the shortest possible time and with a high degree of certainty.