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What if you could always determine the most profitable production plan, particularly when total demand exceeds total capacity? What if you could easily determine which products to build, how many to build and when you should build them? To drive more profit through your shop floor, you need a reliable plan. With the M2M Advanced Planning application, you can avoid the guesswork and create a more effective, more automated production plan.
If you are a company with capacity constraints, significant make-to-stock manufacturing, seasonal demand, and/or long lead times, M2M Advanced Planning can help you respond to demand changes by generating feasible jobs based on available capacity and materials.
During times when total demand outpaces your capacity, M2M Advanced Planning uses Theory of Constraints methodology and mathematical algorithms to help you synchronize critical business processes that can impact your targeted delivery dates and determine the most profitable production plan. With M2M Advanced Planning, you have the visibility to evaluate different, sometimes competing, demand opportunities and then build a plan that delivers the most revenue for your company.
Through a shared database, real-time information flows freely between the M2M ERP back office and the M2M Advanced Planning application. Your material requirements, sales orders, and safety stock levels are balanced against job due dates based on existing capacity and material constraints.
You can keep your sales order commitments in line with your production capacity by using the embedded Capable to Promise (CTP) feature within the M2M ERP sales order screen. With the CTP button, you can quickly and accurately determine whether you have the available capacity and materials to meet your customers’ requested delivery dates. The CTP application can also determine the earliest realistic promise date and offer alternate delivery options when requested dates cannot be met.
Planners can leverage the M2M Advanced Planning interactive screens to compare supply with demand or capacity with load and easily relate these two views. Planning personnel can also see the maximum supply that can be added within current capacity and material availability and make informed job trade-offs on fully loaded resources.
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