Increase Your Manufacturing Efficiency with QAD’s Planning and Scheduling Workbenches

Gary Wasserman – Applications Specialist

What Do The Analysts Say?

“Best-in-Class manufacturers are 49% more likely to have real-time visibility between manufacturing operations and customer orders.”Matthew Littlefield, AberdeenGroup, Manufacturing Operations Management: Capitalizing on the Economic Recovery, March 2010

Planning and Scheduling Trends

• Integration

• Visibility

• Automation

• Tool/Process standardization

Planning & Scheduling Phases

DaysWeeksMonthsSales & Operations

Planning

Master Scheduling & Material Planning

Production Scheduling

Resource planning based on forecast & sales projections

Factoring materials, tools, personnel, machine setup times, defining job start

and completion times, job sequence.

Balancing supply/demand/capacity – defining job due dates

The Scheduler’s Challenge

QAD Planning and Scheduling Workbenches

Master Scheduler’s Challenge

Finance

Engineering

Executives

Manufacturing

Sales

There’s too much cash tied up in inventory!

There’s a new product introduction scheduled for the fall! But we need more time for design!

Service levels are down. I need more inventory! Whatever it takes to keep the customer happy!

ROI must improve; the stockholders are not happy!

There are too many changes! Provide fixed schedules and the correct parts and delivery will improve.

Production Scheduler’s Challenge

Finance

MaterialsManufacturing

Sales

High variances to “plan” (extra setup, downtime, labor), you need to optimize your production schedule.

You can’t change the schedule on short notice and expect the materials to be available.

Drops in a new high priority order due tomorrow, which order can be moved?

Labor / machine resources not available for 2nd shift – what are you going to do about this?

Common Planning & Scheduling Situation

The QAD Solution

QAD Planning and Scheduling Workbenches

CRP

Master Scheduling

Master Scheduling Flow

Discrete Scheduling

Repetitive Scheduling

Production Scheduling Flow

Period - > Month - > Week - > Day - > Shift - > Interval - > hour

• Initial plan is created by MRP

Demand Received

• Balance demand / supply /resources to ensure a feasible and level production plan.

Production Planned • Sequence

production orders by item attributes and resource allocations to Optimize shop floor

Production Scheduled

• Verify materials available

• Release orders• Print work orders and schedules

Production Dispatched • Monitor Production

& Manage Production Order

Production Reported

Base

MSW

PSW

Production Planned (MSW)

• Capacity & Load Planning• Manage Scheduling Horizon• Apply Data Groupings/Filters• Select Views (daily-weekly-monthly)• Apply Totaling (KYB)• Apply Leveling (KYB)

Production Planned (Base)

• Auto-Firm• Manage Production Order

Header Attributes Operation Attributes Date & Times

Production Planned

Production Scheduled

Production Dispatched

Production ReportedDemand received

CAC

MRP MSW PSW Base Base

CAC

Capacity FrameDisplays capacity information per selected resource in the Schedule Grid- Balance your planned and required capacity.

Supply/Demand FrameProvides demand & supply information per selected item in the Schedule Grid.- Primary information used for scheduling decision making.

Schedule GridThe primary context of the workbench. - View and modify your production schedules for each item.

MSW Screen Overview

Supporting PanelsEnables master scheduling action and decision making.

Represents over 30 maintenance programs and reports!

MSW Screen Overview

Production Order Sequence GridSchedule and sequence production orders by item attributes

Production Order BrowseSearch & group data per user specification

Drag & Drop the orders to the desired position on the Sequence Grid.

Production Order MaintenanceView and maintain all order details

PSW Screen Overview

Monitor Material Shortages

Planning and Scheduling Process Support

Release Production Orders by Work Center

Planning and Scheduling Process Support

Manage Materials for Work Center

Planning and Scheduling Process Support

Demo

QAD Planning and Scheduling Workbenches

Master Scheduling Workbench Value

• Reduces master scheduling time and complexity

• Compresses manufacturing response• Provides ability to create an effective

master schedule• Enables to be proactive

Production Scheduling Workbench Value

• Reduces production scheduling time and complexity

• Provides ability to create an “optimized” production schedule

• Removes need for spreadsheets