Respond calmly to urgent rush orders and small quantity, diversified orders.
APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) is a system that automatically considers all production constraints, and exchanges data with other systems such as ERP or MES at irregular intervals. It fits the actual order requirements, raw material feeding plans, BOM raw materials required at each operation, WIP actual production progress, machine conditions, shop floor labor, and the quantities of carriers as well as fixtures. It can frequently generate fast and accurate feasible production plans.
The visualized order scheduling results clearly show the resources used for each order and the final delivery date. The resource from Gantt chart clearly shows the bottleneck processes and machine idle periods. Production managers can drag and drop the production work order onto available resources, add overtime hours to resources, or arrange outsourcing to eliminate bottlenecks, and adjust important order production plans intuitively. It can easily cope with emergency rush orders and small quantity, diversified orders. The production and sales meeting can rely on the system results to make planning and efficient discussions.
Benefits
Planning & scheduling
One-click calculation for scheduling.
Factors like factory, production line, shift, shop floor, route, equipment can be taken into consideration for better scheduling.
Equipment & operator 
Automatically scheduling to the level of lines, process, hour, and nodes.
Automatically predict the resource load situation in the future.
Delivery 
Rapid evaluation and reply of order delivery date.
Rapidly adjust the order plan and control the progress of the order in real-time.
Incident
Response 
Schedule can be adjusted in-time for rush order.
Rapid decision making mechanism and rolling scheduling in response to incident.
Material Requirement
Detailed material demand is calculated and comes up with consideration of material arrival time and utilization, as well as the target and production capacity.
【Online Seminar】The Core and Application of Advanced Planning and Scheduling System (Short Version)
The Advanced Planning and Scheduling System (APS) is a system directly related to production “scheduling.” Depending on different requirements, the system can adjust the production plan of the day, such as scheduling based on “machine utilization rate” or “order fill rate.” Through APS, the situation of machines and materials can be controlled, and the delivery plan and schedule can be completely transparent. Urgent orders can be rescheduled through the system, enabling flexible response to unexpected situations. What priority should be given to scheduling today? Let NTT DATA provide you with a concise and powerful explanation so that you can understand the reasons why companies need to focus on scheduling management.