Advanced Planning
Siemens Opcenter Advanced Planning is a strategic decision tool designed to aid you in long and mid-term planning.
The Advanced Planning software is a strategic decision tool designed to aid you in long- and mid-term planning. It considers forecast and long-term orders, supports decision making about the feasibility and affects the general direction of productions.
Advanced Planning supports major production capacity decisions surrounding extending the workforce, resource capacity, and factories. The software helps you determine what and how much to produce, where and when to produce, and exactly what materials and resources are required.
Planning can be executed in finite or infinite capacity mode and planning time periods can be days, weeks, months, or a combination of all three. If used together with our advanced scheduling system, detailed production schedule information can be sent back to the planning system to override planned volume with scheduled volume. The Master Production Schedule (MPS) can then be re-calculated using the production schedule as the base for new results.
BOM Level Planning
The planning Bill of Materials (BOM) can be exploded, and then the production plan for lower level items is calculated in the same way. Based on the MOM explosion and the production plan, proposed material purchase requirements can be exported to an ERP system or Excel for action.
Interactive Schedule Visualisation
Once an initial Master Production Schedule (MSP) has been created, data can be displayed as stock profile graphs and capacity usage graphs. The MSP can be changed by simply clicking and dragging a point on the stock or capacity graphs, and the production of a particular item can be moved from one planning period to another. Any changes made will be reflected in all the linked plot and grid windows.
Make-To-Order Planning
In a make-to-order environment, stock levels of finished and intermediate items will not be part of the key process parameters, but there will still be the need to evaluate the effects of future demand changes on the manufacturing process. When a change in demand occurs, whether in terms of quantity or delivery dates, there is a need to be able to quickly assess if it is possible to meet the new requirements.
Make-To-Stock Planning
Generate accurate and achievable master production schedules (MSP) considering rough cut capacity, pack forward figures, target days of stock cover, manufacturing preferences, minimum and maximum re-order quantities, re-order multiples and product shelf life. Production capacity can be specified as a quantity, duration or weight. By using the Preactor calendar system capacity, production capacity can be varied over time. The capacity available then limits the production volume created in each period.
Features
Advanced Planning is made up of powerful features that allow you to build a custom solution.
Read more about these features below.
The planning Bill of Materials (BOM) can be exploded, and then the production plan for lower level items is calculated in the same way. Based on the MOM explosion and the production plan, proposed material purchase requirements can be exported to an ERP system or Excel for action.
Once an initial Master Production Schedule (MSP) has been created, data can be displayed as stock profile graphs and capacity usage graphs. The MSP can be changed by simply clicking and dragging a point on the stock or capacity graphs, and the production of a particular item can be moved from one planning period to another. Any changes made will be reflected in all the linked plot and grid windows.
In a make-to-order environment, stock levels of finished and intermediate items will not be part of the key process parameters, but there will still be the need to evaluate the effects of future demand changes on the manufacturing process. When a change in demand occurs, whether in terms of quantity or delivery dates, there is a need to be able to quickly assess if it is possible to meet the new requirements.
Generate accurate and achievable master production schedules (MSP) considering rough cut capacity, pack forward figures, target days of stock cover, manufacturing preferences, minimum and maximum re-order quantities, re-order multiples and product shelf life. Production capacity can be specified as a quantity, duration or weight. By using the Preactor calendar system capacity, production capacity can be varied over time. The capacity available then limits the production volume created in each period.
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