Infor SCM (Supply Chain Management) > Production Scheduling

To be competitive, you not only have to create a production schedule with down-to-the-minute precision, you have to follow through and keep to the schedule. Adhere to your production schedule and you can keep your customers happy and your bottom line in the black.

With Infor SCM Production Planning, you can create constraint-based production schedules with unique features for process and discrete manufacturers that allow you to:

• Achieve higher throughput and faster cycle times.
• Lower manufacturing costs.
• Better respond to changing demand and planned change overs.
• Increase on-time delivery performance.
• Increase capacity utilization.

Infor SCM Production Planning gives you the capabilities you need to squeeze the last ounce of productivity from your production resources. You get:

• Visibility into production—Create personalized views of schedules for specific production operations to improve communications and collaboration.
• Simulation and Scenarios—Understand break changes in your schedule by simulating machine downtime or a late order, and reschedule using drag and drop changes to operations in the Gantt chart
• Synchronized production—Simultaneously consider the capacity, availability, qualifications, and interdependencies of employees, equipment, tools, and materials to better manage production changes.
• Optimized production—Get a comprehensive view of shop-floor data and act on that data to make the best use of your production resources.

The result: You get as much output from your production resources as possible.