QAD Advanced Scheduling

Your organization needs to optimize production agility and resilience by easily deciding what products to make and accurately sequencing your lines to:

  • Eliminate inefficiencies and improve utilization
  • Minimize setups, changeovers and overtime
  • Enhance customer service
  • Increase throughput rates
  • Improve decision making when unforeseen disruptions occur

Key Challenges

  • Supply chain volatility - Producing the right products at the right time efficiently and effectively is complex with the new norm of supply chain disruptions

  • Increasing customer expectations - Your customers now expect and demand rapid and on-time deliveries to ensure a positive customer experience

  • Sequencing - With the high frequency of unpredictable production disruptions, it is essential to be able to swiftly schedule and reschedule your operations as needed

Capabilities

  • Scheduling optimization
    • Production schedules are rule-based and can be automatically generated. Maximize production efficiency by scheduling related products together, in the best sequence, with visibility to inventories, capacity, product attributes and changeover costs.
  • Plan alignment
    • Calculate common scheduling and planning parameters, and harmonize with your ERP and planning systems, so that schedules are actionable and deliver peak manufacturing performance.

  • Capacity alerts
    • Gain visibility to the raw materials and resources needed for your schedule. Alerts notify you when there are potential schedule problems and allow for a rapid response ​to capacity challenges.
  • Changeover configuration
    • The attribute-based changeover model lets you configure changeover rules and run rates to model schedule performance and get feedback on the impact of schedule changes.

  • Business Alignment. Optimize production by deciding what products to make on each line and in the best sequence to minimize changeovers, balancing working capital, service and cost objectives.

  • Visibility. Anticipated constraints, such as critical material availability, insufficient team members, insufficient capacity, or exceeding warehouse space are accessible to users.

  • Aligned Product Wheels™. Define the optimum sequences, cycle times, frequencies, and inventory targets for each SKU. Generate schedules that are aligned with your business’s customer service, throughput and inventory goals.

  • Scheduling automation. Production sequences can be automatically generated. The Product Wheel Design facilitates optimized rescheduling when dealing with disruptions.

  • Scheduling analysis. Your schedulers can quickly analyze and create new schedules in seconds to efficiently reschedule and see the time and cost impacts.

  • Simulation. Conduct “What-If” simulations to identify your optimal operating strategy. Use goal seeking simulations to recommend safety stock levels that support cash, cost and service targets. Consider all factors such as frequencies, lot sizes, demand and supply variability and fill rate targets.

  • Cycle Time Optimization. Cycle times balance the cost of changeovers and inventory, and frequencies accommodate high and low volume products.

  • Production Rhythm. Cycle times are harmonized to ensure repetitive schedules are practical and well accepted by plant personnel.

Further Information

What to Know About QAD Advanced Scheduling

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Unlocking Operational Excellence: The Role of Production Scheduling Software in Industry 4.0

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