Plantune APS, in combinaon with your current ERP sys- tem, delivers a fast and sophiscated soluon that will de- liver advanced producon planning and scheduling func- onality to producon facilies of up to 500 work centers. Developed through intensive consultaon with best-in-class manufacturing companies in a variety of industries, it is a targeted soluon that creates an opmal producon plan for your factory even if you have tremendously complex produc- on scenarios. The strength in the design of the Plantune system is its easy integraon, combined with its scalability. Integrate Plantune with your ERP easily for work center scheduling, idenficaon of material shortages and due date forecasng. Bringing cloud technology to manufacturing Plantune is part of the next generaon of enterprise soſt- ware that has not been possible unl advances in the inter- net within the past decade. In this me, markeng, admin- istraon and sales departments of companies have benefit- ed greatly from the adopon of cloud soſtware. What this means is that companies can try new applicaons easily, see if these applicaons match their needs, and then adjust their usage quickly and responsively. This results in less waste in the company during lengthy implementaon programs, with immediate feedback. In short, cloud technology has enabled the use of lean principles in the acquision of enterprise soſtware. How Lean Soſtware can enable your producon Setup a producon planning tool almost instantly – no waing for lengthy consultaons and implementaon processes Pivot your producon in weeks, not months or years – plan new producon methods instantly as your custom- ers’ demands change Start small, build on what works – no year-long imple- mentaon of a planning tool only to find out it does not deliver In the past, when a company made a purchase of enterprise soſtware, the enre process had to be done with cauon, and with a lot of internal polics. Of course, you were pick- ing one tool that would infiltrate the life of the company, and would not be changed for many years. But cloud tech- nologies have enabled lean soſtware. Just like on the Toyota producon line, you can stop and pull the cord, adapt the soſtware to your specific needs, and move on. A wide-reaching system that plans producon and per- forms these funcons: Material requirements planning (MRP) Idenficaon of excess inventory purchases Idenficaon of missing inventory purchases Targeted capacity Accurate customer due dates Scheduling work centers Shop floor inventory instrucons Stock level maintenance Buffer stock visibility and management Dispatch of producon orders Accurate customer due date forecasts Opmal daily work queues Visibility of material shortage impacts Plantune Advanced Producon Planning and Scheduling Tool “A lean soſtware soluon for your lean factory”
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Plantune APS, in combination with your current ERP sys-
tem, delivers a fast and sophisticated solution that will de-
liver advanced production planning and scheduling func-
tionality to production facilities of up to 500 work centers.
Developed through intensive consultation with best-in-class
manufacturing companies in a variety of industries, it is a
targeted solution that creates an optimal production plan for
your factory even if you have tremendously complex produc-
tion scenarios. The strength in the design of the Plantune
system is its easy integration, combined with its scalability.
Integrate Plantune with your ERP easily for work center
scheduling, identification of material shortages and due date
forecasting.
Bringing cloud technology to manufacturing
Plantune is part of the next generation of enterprise soft-
ware that has not been possible until advances in the inter-
net within the past decade. In this time, marketing, admin-
istration and sales departments of companies have benefit-
ed greatly from the adoption of cloud software. What this
means is that companies can try new applications easily, see
if these applications match their needs, and then adjust their
usage quickly and responsively. This results in less waste in
the company during lengthy implementation programs, with
immediate feedback. In short, cloud technology has enabled
the use of lean principles in the acquisition of enterprise
software.
How Lean Software can enable your production
Setup a production planning tool almost instantly – no
waiting for lengthy consultations and implementation
processes
Pivot your production in weeks, not months or years –
plan new production methods instantly as your custom-
ers’ demands change
Start small, build on what works – no year-long imple-
mentation of a planning tool only to find out it does not
deliver
In the past, when a company made a purchase of enterprise
software, the entire process had to be done with caution,
and with a lot of internal politics. Of course, you were pick-
ing one tool that would infiltrate the life of the company,
and would not be changed for many years. But cloud tech-
nologies have enabled lean software. Just like on the Toyota
production line, you can stop and pull the cord, adapt the
software to your specific needs, and move on.
A wide-reaching system that plans production and per-
forms these functions:
Material requirements planning (MRP)
Identification of excess inventory purchases
Identification of missing inventory purchases
Targeted capacity
Accurate customer due dates
Scheduling work centers
Shop floor inventory instructions
Stock level maintenance
Buffer stock visibility and management
Dispatch of production orders
Accurate customer due date forecasts
Optimal daily work queues
Visibility of material shortage impacts
Plantune Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling Tool
“A lean software solution for your lean factory”
Plantune APS/MRP system
Plantune is an integrated system that incorporates the plan-
ning capabilities of an MRP with the crucial functionality of
production planning with finite capacities. The system can
plan all aspects of your production, by understanding the
customer demands that are in place.
If your company has an MRP module implemented, Plantune
will take production orders from this system and incorporate
them into the production plan. Orders missing from the plan
will be automatically generated and added into the ERP sys-
tem. If there is no MRP module implemented in the ERP sys-
tem all production orders will be generated by Plantune, and
an optimal production plan will be created.
ERP
The Plantune system interacts with your existing company
enterprise software first by extracting data from the ERP
system as requested. Automatically, or manually, data is
extracted that describes the production environment in de-
tail.
Data Requirements:
Plantune requires a complete view of the operations on your
shop floor, and also information about customer requests
and purchases. In this way, there is a complete view of how
to plan in accordance with lean principles as production and
purchasing targeted towards customer requests are given
priority. The data that is required is summarized in the fol-
lowing tables:
Technical Data
Work centers
Routing / Technological Processes
Bills of Material
Catalogue of Materials
Operational Data
Customer Requests
Supply Requests
Manufacturing Orders
Work Completed Previous Day
Inventory
Plantune Server
This information is sent from your ERP to
the Plantune server, and the optimization
calculation is generated. The production
plan created reflects the most optimal
allocation of resources in your factory;
and is the same process as production
planners typically go through when allo-
cating resources in Excel, but with much
more efficient results and completion
within minutes.
Plantune Online
Information about the production plan
created is made available through several
methods:
Information about production scheduling is returned to
your ERP system
The production plan is made available through the web
portal and can be viewed by multiple users
Details can be seen and manipulated through the Plan-
tune Studio application
With these three methods, all individuals who need to have
access to the production plan can do so easily, at the appro-
priate level of detail.
Accurate customer due date forecasts
Optimal daily work queues
Visibility of material shortage impacts
Decision Makers and Users
The daily production plan, after it has been generated by
Plantune, can be used by a variety of people in production.
Two general groups of users are general users and the deci-
sion makers responsible for various departments in the com-
pany. General users in the factory, especially work center
operators, can also have access to the system directly at
their stations to operationalize the production plan. Deci-
sion makers will use both the Plantune web portal, as well as
Plantune Studio. Some examples of how decision makers
use the system:
Head of the Shop Floor
Will ensure that all operators are working on the most
important orders while achieving high efficiency
Head of Purchasing
All manufacturing orders will have the materials they need, while minimizing inventory and WIP
Head of Customer Care
All orders filled with available capacities
Visibility of delays before they happen
Entire production team
Will balance capacities, supplier lead times, and customer
demands to create the best overall outcomes
Day to Day with Plantune
Plantune works for many types of manufacturing companies,
and they often share certain characteristics. The optimiza-
tion process works to simplify production in environments
that:
Produce a large number of different final products
Have complicated routings
Are under pressure to reduce batch sizes
Some production environments that the Plantune APS assists
in are:
Make-to-order environments
Mixed make-to-order/make-to-stock environments
Make-to-engineer environments
Accurate customer due date forecasts
Optimal daily work queues
Visibility of material shortage impacts
“The multi-functionality of this product makes Plantune a vital part of the operations of a
factory. It is a system that can be relied on to generate real benefits in the form of opti-
mized work processes, efficient resource allocation, and visible completion dates.”
Customizable results for your factory
Every factory has a different set of production planning chal-
lenges. That is why Plantune settings are adjustable to re-
flect the differing nature of each factory. Among the settings
that can be changed are the following:
For materials or products
Adjust the safety stock that is desired at each point of the
manufacturing process. In this way, you can manage to
mix your make-to-stock orders into the production plan
of your make-to-order customer requests.
Add information about the length of time needed for
materials to arrive from suppliers. This is included so that
the Plantune system can warn purchasers about the need
to supply a particular material before a shortage is felt on
the shop floor.
For production processes
Set the minimum batch size that is desired. Adjust the
Plantune system to the requirements of your production
process.
Add more than one routing for a manufacturing order. In
this way, alternate methods of producing the same mate-
rials can be specified and reflect the realities of the shop
floor.
Specify the maximum amount of time that you would like
orders to wait in queue on the shop floor. This is a
means of controlling the amount of WIP that exists, and
is analogous to waiting for a Kanban card.
For customer requests and manufacturing orders
Add a priority from 1 – 10 on customer requests or man-
ufacturing orders. The importance of one customer re-
quest / manufacturing order over others creates priority
in scheduling. The primary means of prioritizing orders is
