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Best-in-Class Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling
Still planning and scheduling with spreadsheets? Limited by rigid first-generation planning solutions?
Imagine if you had the analytical tools to uncover dramatic efficiency improvements in your existing operations - improvements that slash changeover costs, manufacturing cycle time and planning cycle time; near-perfect fill rates; more revenue from reduced stock-outs.
ILOG Plant PowerOps gives you those tools and more. It's the most advanced application available for production planning and detailed scheduling.
Accomplish key objectives
Process and discrete manufacturers achieve key goals with Plant PowerOps:
- Increase resource utilization
- Increase ability to handle special, last-minute orders or order changes
- Reduce waste and changeovers
- Reduce late deliveries
- Reduce WIP inventory
- Reduce inventory of finished goods
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Deploy the right application
A range of manufacturers are improving operations with Plant PowerOps:
- Food and beverage
- Consumer packaged goods
- Chemical
- Pharmaceuticals
- Primary metals
- Discrete
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Effective decision making
Supply chain executives and plant personnel alike become more productive and effective with ILOG Plant PowerOps. Interactive graphical tools support what-if analysis and rescheduling capabilities. You improve strategic capital decisions, and decisions on the shop floor.
Plant PowerOps empowers manufacturers to plan and schedule far more effectively:
- Simulate unlimited manufacturing scenarios
Understand the impacts of different alternatives on key manufacturing metrics, such as order fulfillment, machine utilization or cycle time.
- Uncover and understand trends
Set realistic short- and long-term manufacturing goals.
- Reschedule operations
Accommodate unplanned events, like a new high-priority order or a machine breakdown. Keep order fulfillment and customer service targets intact.
Second-generation solution
ILOG Plant PowerOps is a second-generation advanced planning and scheduling
solution. Robust capabilities overcome first-generation limitations:
- Accurate modeling at the shop-floor level
Production schedules accommodate precise operational details. Take into account a range of details, from tank capacities to recipes to multidimensional changeovers, multiple key performance indicators (KPIs) and hybrid operational management philosophies.
- Model complex processes
Modeling is straightforward. Batching rules, dynamic tank behavior, cleaning and shelf-life constraints become as routine as assembly operations in discrete industries. Intermediate and finished product processes and operations are synchronized. Unlike first-generation architectures, Plant PowerOps handles production planning and detailed scheduling simultaneously. Planning departments and shop floors work in unison.
- ILOG leadership in planning and scheduling
Most first-generation supply chain vendors rely on ILOG to power their advanced planning and scheduling (APS) modules. We've built hundreds of custom solutions for our customers, and have gained a deep understanding of manufacturing requirements.
Go beyond rigid ERP/SCM systems
Until now, keeping systems up-to-date with manufacturing operations has been a challenge for IT groups. ILOG Plant PowerOps allows plant personnel to manage business logic themselves. A business rule interface replaces rigid enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) platforms. Non-technical users can modify policies by simply changing data model attributes and business rules without having to rely on expensive IT resources.
Next steps
Learn more about how ILOG can help you improve your production planning and detailed scheduling:
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