With demand, inventory, and manufacturing plans in place, complex manufacturers strive to deliver that final “edge” of performance by getting down to the details of intelligent production scheduling. Their goal: to make full use of their production assets and meet demanding dispatch schedule times—to the minute.
Infor SCM Scheduler is an advanced, constraint-based solution that helps you intelligently schedule manufacturing across all production lines to meet exacting customer delivery times, minimize lost time, and lower manufacturing costs. It also gives your planners all the tools they need to quickly overcome everyday challenges and manage change.
Working with Infor, one of the world’s largest manufacturers and distributors of building materials has significantly reduced lost time through better sequencing and fewer set-ups.
With Infor’s powerful, constraint-based scheduling solution, you can throw away your spreadsheets. You can also improve planner and plant productivity with comprehensive, easy-to-use scheduling tools—tools that help create optimal manufacturing schedules by coordinating plant activities with market demand and production realities.
You’ll stay on top of your schedule throughout the day, responding to routine, unplanned events that threaten service. You’ll use graphical displays to warn of lateness and excessive loading and drag-and-drop features to make changes and put your plans into action. Companies using this solution realize up to a 30% reduction in lost time, which means higher throughput, lower costs, and more reliable customer service.