GoodsForecast.Scheduling

GoodsForecast.Scheduling represents the system of optimization of production planning of products at the enterprise and automation of scheduling of production changes.

2019: Description of GoodsForecast.Scheduling

For August, 2019 the GoodsForecast.Scheduling system considers value drivers and compoundings of production, possible penalties for overdue shipments and, on the contrary, too early shipments, cost of switchings between batches and many other things that, finally, leads to reduction of level of warehouse stocks and increase in level of service for clients.

The visual interface of software optimizes work of schedulers. Different reports allow to compare different versions of production plans, to analyze differences of actual production from planned, to estimate what costs lead to reduction of income of the enterprise.

Without use of the product GoodsForecast.Scheduling to the scheduler very high requirements for qualification as this person takes the responsibility for made by it schedules, timeliness of setting of batches in the production plan and accuracy of determination of dates of shipment of different customer orders are imposed. Replacement of the scheduler inevitably reduces performance of the plant and leads to falling of level of service. Automation of production planning of the enterprise helps to reduce similar risks. The system of optimization of production changes will help to increase loading and production efficiency in general, having minimized influence of a human factor.

The GoodsForecast.Scheduling system undertakes optimization and modeling of production by means of planning of the schedule of production changes. The model put in a program runtime basis considers the following factors:

• The made range and groups of priority.
• Restrictions on production opportunities on each line.
• Cost of switching off and start of production lines and cost of their work (light, gas, water).
• Routine maintenance of production lines.
• Restrictions of warehouses and cost of derivation of means.
• Cost values and production speeds of goods.
• Times and costs of switchings for each couple of goods (including "acceleration" of the line and a zatrtata on production of a membrane).
• Groups of goods on a compounding, minimum lots and multiplicity of production.

Optimization of production processes using software of GoodsForecast.Scheduling allows not only to simplify monitoring and the analysis of the inventory level, but also to make production planning at the enterprise taking into account a demand forecast.

Features:

• Accounting of annual and week seasonality
• Predata processing (deficit, jumps of sales)
• Promotion actions and reduction of prices
• Expert adjustment by the user
• Assessment of optimal inventory level for ensuring the set level of service
• Assessment of optimum level of service taking into account the cost of storage of goods and the size of possible penalties
• Accounting of the available orders
• Production planning of products taking into account the capacity of a warehouse and production capacities
• Optimization of the schedule on the basis of manufacturing cost, the cost of switchings and penalties

Effects of implementation:

• Substantial increase of efficiency of the plant or enterprise by means of mathematical optimization methods of the schedule.
• Decrease in influence of a human factor, decrease in quantity of errors.
• Formation of the knowledge base of process of operational planning, reduction of level of dependence of plant operation on quality of work of the scheduler.
• Potential centralization of production planning at the plants of the company.