Optimizing the schedule to balance customer requirements and operating costs can be difficult. At times it may seem like the scheduler is a puppet being pulled in many directions.
Customer Service: “I need you to pull up this order to run earlier or the customer will cancel!”
Scheduler: “Schedule has been updated. This other order will be late due to an extra changeover and cleanout.”
Operations: “We have to run overtime to accommodate the extra changeover and cleanout.”
Finance: “Our productivity decreased, and our operation costs increased last week. Why?”
Does this sound familiar? It can be difficult to effectively balance the demands of the business to meet customer needs while minimizing costs. Sometimes it is difficult to understand the true cost of the decisions made while creating a schedule. PlanetTogether’s schedule optimization takes into consideration many factors to balance these issues and provide the best possible schedule. It helps take the guesswork out allowing the schedulers to analyze a situation fully before making any changes.
The optimization engine can balance due dates, productivity, profits and costs, material grouping, and operational attributes that are specific to your business.
Instead of being a puppet, the scheduler has the tools necessary in Planet Together to discuss with both operations and customer service the benefits and risks of making changes to the schedule. So maybe in hindsight, losing that order would have been less costly than the extra changeover and overtime.
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