OmniSchedule 2012

Scheduling and Production Control

Inquiries, offers and orders for production must be coordinated exactly over the entire production process. For this an accurate scheduling and loading of the available capacity is essential. Bottlenecks and interruption must be avoided. Unreliable and unrealistic planning can lead to lost orders or unprofitable business. At any time, those responsible for sales and production want to be able to give customers information about possible delivery dates whenever they ask for.

OmniSchedule 2012 controls production processes transparently, reproducibly and reliably. The use of resources is optimized.

This includes information about alternative production possibilities if available capacity is restricted. The corresponding planning parameters should be able to be taken into the pre-calculation if needed and retained as a cost variable in the system. Particularly when calculating offers and orders many companies have, up to now, to rely on pure assumptions, because they have no planning date from the production planning available. With the APS process, all offers and orders for limited capacities are included in the planning. Regardless of whether it is customer order, personnel, machine or resource data, OmniSchedule 2012 uses all relevant data for exact planning and control.

Starting from the delivery date the individual customer requires, the system allocates the free resources and ensures tangentially an optimum material disposition. Production, logistic and storage costs can be permanently reduced by this. Therefore, orders move in a transparent framework with optimized costs and dates. Bottlenecks become recognizable and consequences can be drawn.

The allocation of resources and the planned sequence of orders are displayed in a clear layout. The result is a complete overview of all necessary production operations. In the GANTT diagram, the time line for the start and completion dates is visible. This makes it possible to make available the appropriate resources at the right moment.

As well as the classic production papers for the flow of the order through production, a digital workflow with accompanying FDC via OmniTrack 2012 is also possible.

OmniSchedule 2012 complements OmniCalc 2012 and extends the calculation in an ideal way with a scheduling and production-planning tool. An additional option is available in OmniTrack 2012 for factory data capture and post-calculation. OmniTrack 2012 analyses production, identifies turnover carriers and combats cost drivers.

Key Features:

Resource requirements are calculated exactly so they can be visible at the press of a button
Easy to monitor whether additional resources are required
Decision support how resources can best be fully loaded
Corrective actions can be initiated
Stock levels are reduced and so are cash requirements
Avoids unnecessary bottlenecks and idle times in production
Optimizes processes and increases the efficiency of the resources used
Clear overview of the planning and reproducibility are the corresponding results
Costs for planning and calculation are noticeably reduced
Structured and realistic data and information become available
Dependency on persons, media disruptions, time delays and inaccurate planning is consequently avoided