SmartPLAN
Manufacturing planning
Reduce your cycle time and increase your overall profitability and customer service levels with Strategic Systems' production planning system.
Your business is faced with continual planning decisions – what products to produce, where to produce them, and how to distribute them from plants, to warehouses, and ultimately your customers. Your company's profitably and success is governed by the outcome of these decisions.
In roll-goods process manufacturing, effective manufacturing planning can make all the difference. Too often, in an effort to better serve customers, reactionary decisions are made that can adversely affect multiple customers for the sake of one. Strategic Systems understands process manufacturing and provides services and solutions aimed at optimizing your supply chain. By considering a greater universe of variables, SmartPLAN can simultaneously balance your customers' needs with your manufacturing objectives.
Strategic Systems' SmartPLAN is capable of considering thousands of constraints and variables that relate to your industry and specific business rules and objectives to arrive at optimal and actionable production scenarios. SmartPLAN produces a variety of detailed reports and can be customized for specific needs.
SmartPLAN is designed for flexible integration with your existing ERP or legacy systems. SmartPLAN is one of six modular enterprise applications designed to work as a standalone product or integrated with our supply chain optimization products.
Primary features and functionality
- System allows user to develop production plans for up to twelve rolling months – recommends volumes by product, by machine, for a each time period
- Maximizes margin (minimizes production and inventory costs),
- Optimization models driven by product revenues, costs, product forecast, production rates by product by resource (production lines and slitters), available capacity by resource, planned down time by resource, and average grade changeover penalties by product by resource, and inventory holding costs.
- Links to forecasting, and production scheduling systems
Benefits of SmartPLAN
- Helps maximize profitability
- Optimal equipment utilization – right product on the right machine at the right time
- Helps minimize number of changes in the detailed schedules
- Optimal inventory plans – Build vs. Just-in-Time (JIT)
- Reduces excess and aging inventory and associated costs
- Optimal sourcing - right plant based on customer location
- System interfaces with other Strategic Systems decision support systems or other system for enterprise-wide efficiencies