To meet production requirements, manufacturers must balance the limitations of their equipment against the needs of customer demand. Equipment, time constraints, and personnel limitations combine to limit the maximum capacity of any production environment. In order to put together an effective production schedule, manufacturers must consider equipment changeovers and capacity constraints to balance demand and optimize production.

Plan Proactively For Production

To maximize capacity, planners must experiment with resource combinations until they find a schedule that toes the line between capacity and demand. With effective capacity planning, users can be confident in their production schedule’s ability to meet demand. Users also can see when they are unable to meet demand and plan proactively to escape the bottleneck.

Experiment with Capacity Scenarios

John Galt’s Rough Cut Capacity Planning module offers planners the platform that they need in order to find an effective combination of resources. Using our intuitive graphical interface, planners can view a schedule of resources, understand which items fall within and outside of capacity, and move items to align major resources with demand. When a complete capacity plan is generated, Rough Cut pushes the completed production schedule back into the Atlas Planning Suite, allowing collaborative planners to integrate the constraints with the company’s overall strategy

John Galt's Capacity Module is seamlessly integrated with the Demand Management and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) modules within the Atlas Planning Suite. The Capacity Planning module features include:

• Intuitive graphics that provide visibility of factory resources
• Resource transfers
• Online product information
• Batch rescheduling for inventory planning
• Analytical reports for quick ad-hoc analysis
• Exception management reports to immediately identify bottlenecks
• Analysis of load and capacity for both planned and actual work loads
• Powerful what-if analysis for fast decision making
• Conversion factors that will allow for capacity to be calculated by any unit of measure

At John Galt, we’re proud to help our customers surpass their competitors by creating a more efficient consumer-driven supply chain.  Contact us today to see a demo and learn more.