Capacity

Unlimited capacity

Unlimited capacity in the planner, nevertheless, eliminates all past dates. Past is Past!!
In each case the material availability is also checked.
Variously coloured bars in the capacity chart denote which primary requirements generate the capacity utelisation:
Sales orders or sales delivery schedules?
Confirmed or unconfirmed sales orders?
Foreseeably too late or probably on time?
Or it shows only forecasts and stock orders to determine the safety stock levels.

In the capacity chart you can, of course, also switch between an exact daily or weekly based display.

>90%
 

After a certain time the users of the ascon planer achieve well over 90% internal delivery reliability. Of course the tool alone does not achieve this, the organisation must also be trimmed.



25 x
So far the ascon planner is being used in 25 production companies.

Limited capacity

You decide which capacity will be limited.

When the capacity is limited, then less important operations are automatically postponed, should this be required:
e.g. a light blue bar in the chart denotes stock orders without a current demand, which are then moved to a later date in the event of a bottleneck.
OR operations for unconfirmed orders automatically move behind those for confirmed orders.
Of course the availability of materials is also taken into account. And the whole operation is propagated throughout the collective order network on several levels.

The dotted lines in the chart denote the actual capacity requirements.
In this way the production supervisor can see whether additional work is necessary. A glance at the “unlimited capacity” chart then shows, which pegged order would benefit from an additional capacity. If these are just stock orders, the additional shift may not be worthwhile.