Manufacturing Planning & Scheduling

Manufacturing Planning & Scheduling (MP&S), an advanced constraint-based planning and scheduling tool designed to give continuous, batch and discrete repetitive enterprises the unprecedented capability to meet demand more cost effectively than ever before.

A central component of Logility's Voyager Solutions, MP&S operates independently or tightly integrates with the distribution and transportation planning modules within the suite. This powerful module delivers core pieces of supply chain information. Information like realistic sourcing and production plans, schedules and profitable-to-promise order quoting. All these pieces are based on capacity, materials, labor and other resource constraints of process and discrete repetitive plants.

MP&S's extensive interactive what-if capabilities help you create accurate, effective plans not only to meet your service targets but work toward goals like true least-cost, least-change and inventory limits.

Easily capture capacity constraints such as:

• Equipment capabilities
  
• Downtime
  
• Intermediate storage limits
  
• Shop floor calendars and raw material availability

Production constraints:

• Synchronization of multi-step operations and product sequencing changeovers

The ease-of-use and openness of MP&S translates into more effective collaboration among multiple planners, schedulers and plants. This robust solution works the way master planners and schedulers do - with graphical, highly responsive Gantt charts showing production campaigns. With this enhanced visibility, multiple schedules for distributed environments are easily integrated into a single, global master plan.

Unlike most vendors' solutions, Logility's MP&S offers both planning and scheduling in a single product. Together this functionality helps keep everyone in sync. Better yet, the system's Manufacturing Collaborator supplies the complete communications infrastructure, both client and server, to allow fast, remote distributed communication. Collaborator also lets users reconcile differing plan levels and shared resource constraints, and provides even stronger assurance that your plant personnel aren't sacrificing your overall enterprise plan for a single-plant schedule. It's this fast, clean tool that allows true collaboration among planners at all levels.

Because process manufacturers have a broad range of needs, MP&S has the added flexibility it takes to work in many systems environments. This highly functional module can operate as a stand-alone system - or tightly integrate with the rest of the Voyager solutions suite.

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