More reliability, less trouble

Does the following sound familiar?

• Planning against an infinite capacity?
• Commencement date in the past?
• Progress controllers rule the day?
• Appointments, missing parts, machine allocation or occupancy are collected in isolated Excel lists without any feedback to the ERP system?
• Inadequate transparency regarding the actual capacity?
• Elaborate calculations of any bottlenecks regarding the resources?
• The dispatchers are inundated with acceleration messages/requests? (addition in the diagramme: for production and purchase orders, which they thus start to ignore)

The conventional MRP (material requirement planning) systems dispatch primary requirements by starting from the due-date/requirement-date and then calculate backwards from this, level by level.
Provided the primary requirements (sales orders, forecasts) themselves do not already have feasible due dates, a quantity scheduling framework will arise, with past dates and an arbitrary capacity overload.
It thus becomes difficult for the end-user/operator to determin whether the desired deadline for a customer's order or the made-to-stock production is feasible.
 

This leaves many unresolved questions:

• When can we deliver?
• Will we deliver on time?
• Where are the bottlenecks in the order?
• What do we need to do first?

That's why you need an APS!!

The only remedy/solution is an APS planner (advanced planning system)
The outcome would be:
 

• No more past due-date scheduling.
• Capacity bottlenecks re-scheduled
• Availability of material checked
• Priorities taken into account
• Bottlenecks pointed out transparently
• Feasible production deadlines
   

A deadline is feasible when both the material and the capacity are available. Thus the important aspects take precedence over the less important!
 

Ascon plug-in converts LN to APS

LN-Standard also belongs to the conventional ERP systems, which excel in backwards planning. In contrast our fully compatible add-on ascon-planner (as an APS in the Infor/LN environment) calculates all dealine dates backwards and forwards simultaneously in several stages against possible limited capacities and material. This results in a comparison between the desired date and a feasible date.

Priorities are taken into account, feasible production sequences are proposed and bottlenecks are pointed out transparently.
With a simple click the sales department can determine the feasible date directly when entering the sales order, which will have been checked against capacity and material availability in several stages.
 

Your day-to-day grind ?

  and many unanswered questions.

However, with ascon-planner as LN-plug-in:

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