Manufacturers with complex operations know their enterprise resource planning systems only go so far in producing the best plan. Real-life constraints such as machine capacity, material availability, and labor skills that are ignored by material requirements planning (MRP) mean that manufacturing plans are often unrealistic and can jeopardize productivity and on-time delivery performance.
Infor SCM Planner addresses all these challenges, delivering a totally synchronized, capacity-constrained manufacturing plan that helps you meet your customer service goals, while achieving higher productivity and lower operational costs. Providing three planning engines, total flexibility over the definition of your critical constraints, and the speed of memory-resident technologies, it provides everything your planners need to streamline your manufacturing operations.
Leading enterprises in complex engineering industries and high-tech repetitive environments using Infor SCM Planner connected to their ERP systems report manufacturing productivity improvements of up to 20%.
Planner enables you to model the simplest or most complex multi-site manufacturing environments. Three planning engines overcome the limitations of conventional MRP planning to provide pull-driven planning, optimized against user-selected, real-world constraints. New customer orders can be introduced to the plan and tested for their achievability within current constraints, without disturbing current manufacturing plans.
This solution integrates with any enterprise resource planning system from which it gets inventories, bills of material, routings, and customer orders. When working in a fully integrated mode with Infor’s ERP solution, it provides full MRP, master production scheduling (MPS), and distribution requirements planning (DRP) capabilities in a single module. Memory-resident processing and constraint-based planning make the perfect what-if planning tool and greatly enhance your responsiveness to changes in supply conditions or to new customer order opportunities. Highly graphical and easy to learn, Infor SCM Planner ensures rapid returns with bottom-line benefits in months.
