Advanced Planning & Scheduling
Production planning and scheduling software
This solution enables manufacturers to design realistic production plans and schedules that promote efficiency and keep operations aligned with business goals. It tackles the growing complexity of coordinating resources, constraints, and disrupted supply chains by integrating critical systems and data—empowering teams to stay in control, optimize workflows, and boost on-time delivery.
Plan Smarter. Produce Faster.
Opcenter Scheduling
Key Capabilities
- Advanced Scheduling: Precisely model your production environment to maximize resource utilization and on-time delivery.
- Order-Based Multi-Constraint Planning: Prioritize orders with ranking rules and sequencing algorithms that consider resource speeds, changeover times, overlaps, and slack time.
- Resource Optimization: Model complex constraints, set inter-operation rules, and optimize schedules for minimal changeovers, preferred sequencing, and efficient campaigning.
- Material Usage Control: Apply business-specific rules for raw materials and sub-assemblies, including quality and customer-specific requirements.
- Visual Process Mapping: Graphically view material flows, dependencies, and stock levels over time to anticipate shortages and decide how to address them.
- Schedule Visibility: Track progress from sales offices, shop floors, or management dashboards, comparing actual performance against planned timelines.
Opcenter Planning
Opcenter Planning is a powerful production and capacity planning solution that enables strategic decision-making for factories, resources, and workforce management.
Key Capabilities
- Bill of Materials (BOM) Planning: Expand planned BOMs into detailed raw material lists, calculate production requirements, and export purchase needs to ERP or Excel for action.
- Make-to-Order (MTO) Planning: Maintain production readiness by replenishing raw materials and components, closely coordinating with the supply chain, and adapting to demand changes.
- Make-to-Stock (MTS) Planning: Create accurate, achievable master production schedules (MPS) that factor in capacity, stock cover days, reorder quantities, manufacturing preferences, and product shelf life.
- Visual Scheduling: View and adjust production plans using interactive stock and capacity graphs. Drag-and-drop changes are instantly reflected across linked views for real-time planning updates.
Key Features
Advanced Scheduling
Advanced Planning
Real-Time What-If Scenarios
System Integration
Highly Configurable
Industries That Benefit from Opcenter APS
Food & Beverage
Respond quickly to demand changes, seasonal fluctuations, and shelf-life constraints.
- Sequence production to minimize product changeovers and cleaning times
- Manage expiry dates and raw material freshness
- Ensure compliance with safety and traceability regulations
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
Meet fast-changing market demands with agile production planning.
- Shorten lead times and improve on-time delivery rates
- Run “what-if” scenarios to adapt to market changes
- Optimize packaging line utilization for multiple SKUs
Automotive
In industries where complex assembly lines, strict deadlines, and just-in-time delivery are critical, Opcenter APS ensures production runs smoothly.
- Synchronize supply chain and production schedules
- Optimize changeovers to reduce downtime
- Balance resource allocation for high-mix, low-volume production
Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals
In regulated industries, precision and compliance are non-negotiable.
- Plan production to meet batch processing timelines
- Track and trace materials for regulatory compliance
- Reduce production bottlenecks with constraint-based scheduling
Metal, Rubber, Plastics & Machinery
Handle complex routing, tooling constraints, and high-capacity equipment with ease.
- Plan and schedule multiple production lines in real-time
- Reduce machine idle time and improve throughput
- Integrate maintenance schedules to avoid unplanned downtime
Textiles, Paper & Packaging
Stay competitive with efficient resource usage and reduced waste.
- Optimize dyeing, printing, and finishing processes
- Schedule around machine capabilities and maintenance windows
- Minimize setup times for short production runs
Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals
- Schedule continuous and batch processes efficiently
- Manage maintenance shutdowns and turnarounds
- Optimize production based on fluctuating demand and pricing
Electronics & Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Coordinate high-volume, high-precision production
- Manage multi-stage assembly with strict quality standards
- Adapt to rapid product design changes
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