Production Planning with
Patterns Optimization (PPPO)
Run sizes and inventory: how you do achieve the perfect balance? Traditional planning strategies do aid in decision-making, but they’re time-consuming. Your planning leaders must sift through endless production scheduling options. With so much detail, it becomes too late to perform a useful scenario analysis.
Add to that the challenges of traditional Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) planning. These systems typically only balance the setup cost versus the inventory cost for each individual item, without considering manufacturing capacity. As a result, true optimization becomes a significant missed opportunity.
So how do you get the powerful data governance and optimized run cycles you want? You choose Production Planning with Patterns Optimization (PPPO) from SmartOps.
With PPPO you can:
- Evaluate opportunities through SmartOps’ robust software. Our easy-to-perform “what-if” analysis allows you to see how different production planning scenarios could affect your supply chain. Balance economies of scale, like batch sizes and infrequent setups, against inventory costs, to streamline production processes and generate savings.
- Gain a bird’s eye view of your production systems through comprehensive modeling. Model manufacturing capacity and overtime, automatically, to get a real understanding of your systems. Predict how changing conditions like seasonality and extra capacity will impact your business. Consider sequence-dependent changeover costs and times.
- Save time and effort with workable plans you can repeat anytime. By integrating SmartOps PPPO with your ERP and APS systems, your plans are easily repeatable when you need them, saving you time.