It’s a fact of life that manufacturers that mix, blend, brew, cook, react, or distill face different scheduling challenges from those in other industries—challenges that aren’t met by conventional ERP planning software or assembly-based scheduling systems.
Infor SCM Advanced Scheduler is a sophisticated, constraint-based scheduling solution that addresses these differences, including the real-world challenges of managing the capacity of vessels, tanks, and lines—and the flow of product between them. By using it to achieve tight synchronization of all your operations across all lines, you can expect less lost time from set-up and changeovers. You’ll also see your production costs come down and your on-time delivery performance go up.
A European grocery brand leader faced a lofty scheduling challenge in reorganizing its capacity, while increasing its product range 80%. Using Infor SCM Advanced Scheduler, the company absorbed the increase in under five months, decreased overtime, and reduced line changeovers 30%.
Infor’s fast, interactive, and intuitive advanced scheduling solution is tailored specifically for batch-process production environments such as food, beverage, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and many consumer goods. Combining powerful constraint-based logic with optimization, it simultaneously schedules all operations on all lines, including any interdependencies, to deliver a totally synchronized schedule—right down to the minute.
This solution is unique in its ability to manage the constraints of tank and silo capacity and the flow of product between them including shelf-life, maturation times, storage restrictions, and overlapping processes. Planner productivity is enhanced with graphical representation of production lines with visual markers to warn of potential lateness or scheduling conflicts. As a result, you gain total control of your plant and achieve measurable improvements in production, service, and profitability.
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