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COMPREHENSIVE FEATURES LIST FOR PLANETTOGETHER APS


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PLANETTOGETHER APS SOFTWARE FEATURES

SYSTEM

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  • Master Scheduler Users

    Users with the ability to adjust plans and schedules.

  • View-Only Users

    Users with the ability to view plans and schedules and (optionally) update production status.

  • What-If Users

    Users with view-only ability plus the ability to create what-if scenarios.

  • Data Limits (Plants, Orders, etc.)

    No limits (other than computer memory) on any data objects or records.

  • Visio® Process Flows

    Process flow diagrams built in microsoft visio® and integrated into the system to guide users and run functions.

  • Workspaces

    Tailored screen layouts optimized and customizable for user roles and functions.

  • Split-Screen and Multi-Screen Viewing

    See multiple views together on one screen or on multiple screens.

CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT

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  • Capacity Bottleneck Identification

    Visual identification of activities that are delayed due to resource capacity limits.

  • Material Bottleneck Identification

    Visual identification of activities that are delayed due to material availability limits.

  • Buffer Management

    Manage variability using buffers and monitoring buffer penetration.

  • Bottleneck Scheduling

    Tailored screen layouts optimized and customizable for user roles and functions.

  • Flexible Gantt Labels

    Choose what is shown in the gantt to see material shortages or other useful information.

RESOURCE SCHEDULING

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  • Machine Scheduling

    Schedules for equipment.

  • Labor Scheduling

    Schedules for individual people with various skills or groups of labor.

  • Tool Scheduling

    Schedule tool usage and compatibility with products and machines.

  • Maintenance Scheduling

    Coordinate maintenance schedules with production schedules.

PLAN & SCHEDULE OPTIMIZATION

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  • KPI Optimization

    Automatic schedule generation based on target key performance indicators.

  • Multi-Factor Optimization

    Automatic schedule generation based on a combination of factors (such as setup time, priority, due-date, etc.)

  • Multi-Plant Optimization

    Optimize all your plants together or separately.

  • CoPilot Optimization

    Automatic searching and proposed changes to existing optimization rules.

  • Cross-Plant Optimization

    Create plans and schedules that are synchronized and cross loaded between plants.

  • Fast Optimization

    Quickly create updated schedules for your needed order voume.

  • Productivity Optimization

    Optimize plans and schedules to maximize resource utilization and output.

  • Financial Optimization

    Optimize plans and schedules to based on financial measures such as: revenue, cost, profit, and cash flow.

  • Frozen Zone

    Create stability, protecting a portion of the schedule from being re-optimized.

  • Stable Span

    A secondary level of stability, protecting a less firm area of the schedule right after the frozen span.

  • Compress

    Automatic removal of gaps from the schedule.

  • Time Anchoring

    Preserve commitments, preventing specific jobs and operations from being re-optimized.

  • Resource Locking

    Preserve manual resource assignments, prevenging specific operations from being re-assigned.

  • JIT Scheduling

    Automatic just-in-time scheduling to reduce inventory.

  • Product and Operation Attributes

    Fully customizable attributes that allow advanced scheduling by number ranges, employee skill level or certification.

  • Custom scheduling rules

    Rules that are custom tailored to specialized needs, built in any microsoft .net language.

SCHEDULING TOOLS

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  • Smart Drag-and-Drop

    Automatically adjust for operation precedence, material constraints, and capacity.

  • Activity Grids

    Reschedule from configurable grid views where all data can be easliy seen as desired.

  • Expedite

    Expedite of jobs and supplying jobs and material, moving other work out of the way as necessary.

  • Split/AutoSplit

    Divide a single operation across multiple resources or multiple days (manually or automatically.)

  • Unlimited Undo/Redo

    Multi-level undo/redo for schedule and data changes.

  • Clock Advance

    Automatic roll forward of unfinished work (preserving schedule sequence) as time passes.

  • Job Split/Join/AutoJoin

    Split and join jobs (manually or automatically.).

  • Multi-Planner Scheduling

    Simultaneous login and scheduling of multiple planners to facilitate collaboration.

  • Multi-Job Drag-and-Drop

    Reschedule groups of jobs in one action.

  • Multi-Plant Schedule Visibility

    Schedule visibility of multiple plants.

  • Multi-Plant Schedule Coordination

    Syncrhonize material flows between vertically integrated plants.

CAPACITY PLANNING

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  • Capacity Plan

    Graphical load to capacity view with adjustable detail level and filters.

  • Cross-Plant Capacity Planning

    Dynamically allocate production across plants to balance plant work loads.

  • Capacity Calendars

    Manage planned maintenance, shift schedules, and overtime schdules by resource, department, or plant.

  • Time-dependent capacity eligibility

    Define resources as being eligible to perform work in the future when certfied or trained.

ORDER MANAGEMENT

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  • Capable To Promise (CTP)

    Immediate date estimating for new orders for multi-level bom products.

  • Order Alerts

    Visual indicators of custom order conditions with drill-down details.

  • Order Pegging View

    See material flow between jobs to destination orders on one screen.

  • Job Statuses

    Track/sort/filter/color by various job statuses such as: planned, firm, estimate, what-if, or quote.

  • Job Watches

    Proactively manage high-value jobs by creating individual gantt’s for each watched job.

  • Multi-Plant CTP

    Immediate date estimating for new orders for multi-level bom products that are made by multiple plants.

  • CoPilot Insert Jobs

    Automatically schedule new orders to maximize kpis without making other orders late.

  • Shop Dispatch and Reporting

    Real-time communication with the shop floor on schedule changes and work completions.

  • Auto Finish

    Automatically close operations at their scheduled time for workcenters where reporting is not desired.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

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  • KPI View

    Immediately know how schedule changes affect key performance indicators.

  • Select best KPI Plan

    Choose from recent schedules to choose the one that delivers the best kpi values.

  • KPI Impact

    Immediate impact analysis on kpi for any schedule change.

  • Pre-defined KPI

    Approximately 40 different kpi in areas such as: productivity, financials, and customer delivery.

  • Custom KPI

    Create kpi tailored to your specific needs scripted with any Microsoft .Net language.

SCENARIOS

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  • What-If Scenarios

    Unlimited scenarios that can be easily created, saved, and compared by master schedulers or what-if users.

  • Compare Scenarios

    Create and compare plan scenarios based on kpi to make better choices.

  • Scenario History

    Track scenarios over time to analyze trends and compare actual versus planned.

  • Live Scenario

    A scenario that can be worked on collaboratively by multiple planners.

  • Published Scenario

    A finalized scenario that can be saared throughout the company while a new plan is being constructed.

  • Short-Term Scenario

    Automatically remove long term data to focus on short-term scheduling.

COMMUNICATION TOOLS

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  • Visual Factory

    Hands-free shop floor viewing that cycles through screens automatically.

  • Real-time Schedules

    Automatic update of the schedule as work is completed or delayed.

  • Job and Operation Holds

    Place a job, manufacturing order, or operation on hold until a set date.

  • Activity Comments

    Record and display comments related to scheduled jobs.

  • Flags

    Custom tailored visual alerts when special scheduling preferences are violated or need attention, scripted in any Microsoft .Net language.

  • Instant messaging

    Messaging between users.

INVENTORY & DISTRIBUTION PLANNING

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  • Inventory Plan

    View inventory projections by location with configurable grid views.

  • Inventory Alerts

    Visual indicators of custom inventory conditions with drill-down details.

  • Multi-Warehouse Inventory Planning

    Plan supply and demand of inventories in multiple warehouses.

  • Cross-Warehouse Material Coordination

    Synchronization of material flow across warehouses.

  • Purchase Order Planning

    Track purchase orders to ensure accurate scheduling of orders requiring material.

  • Sales Order Planning

    Track sales orders to ensure you are meeting customer delivery dates.

  • Express MRP

    High speed, unlimited depth bom explosion with simultaneous capacity constraints, creating jobs and p.o.’s

  • Transfer Order Planning

    Track transfer orders between warehouses and plants for real-time inventory visibility.

  • Lot Tracking

    Lot tracking of material to enforce material and wip shelf-life or usage level.

  • Safety Stock Reordering

    Automated creation of planned jobs and purchase orders when safety stock is depleted.

  • ByProducts and CoProducts

    Multiple products made by a single job or operation.

  • Batching

    Batch multiple demands into production jobs.

ANALYTICS

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  • Impact Analysis

    Immediately know how schedule changes affect other orders.

  • Order Management Analytics

    Track and predict order delivery performance.

  • Capacity Analytics

    Analyze load versus capacity.

  • Productivity Analytics

    Analytics focused on utilization, output and performance.

  • Financial Analytics

    Financial indicators.

  • Custom Analytics

    Create charts, grids, and composite dashboards.

  • Web and Mobile Analytics

    Access information from planettogether, web, and tablets.

  • Analytic E-mails

    Subscribe to analytics to receive charts and measures via e-mail.

RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS

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  • Finite Capacity Scheduling (FCS)

    Avoid scheduling more work in a period than the actual capacity allows.

  • Infinite Capacity Scheduling

    Fixed lead-time scheduling at a resource, independent of workload.

  • Capability Work Assignment

    Flexible means of specifying which types of work a resource can perform.

  • Multi-Tasking Resources

    Resources that can work on multiple jobs at the same time but are limited to how many jobs they can work on.

  • Multi-Resource Scheduling

    Simultaneous (finite) scheduling of machines, tooling and labor on one activity.

  • Manual Scheduling Overrides

    Allow editing operaiton data and preserve edits during future imports.

  • Post Process Time

    Extra time delay (such as drying), either consuming the resource or not.

  • Subcontract Operations

    Schedule subcontract work, tied to buy-direct purchase orders.

  • Batch Scheduling

    Processing of multiple jobs on one resource at the same time (similar to an oven).

  • Tank Scheduling

    Reserve tank capacity until the tank is emptied.

  • Sequence-dependent Setup Time

    Setup time that depends on product attributes for sequentially run products.

  • Manual-only Resources

    Resources that can only be assigned manually, not by the system.

  • Product Rules

    Resource preferences and run rates that avery by the type of product being made on different resources.

  • Transfer Time

    Minimum delay times between operations (dry, transfer, etc.)

  • UDF Scheduling

    User-defined fields to drive scheduling or to display.

  • Custom Rules

    Special constraints tailored to your exact needs.

  • Custom Constraints

    Custom tailored speciality planning constraints scripted in any Microsoft .Net language

  • Custom Timings

    Custom tailored operation times scripted in any Microsoft .Net language

MATERIAL CONSTRAINTS

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  • Raw Material Constraints

    Constrain activity start times based on availability of raw material.

  • WIP Material Constraints

    Constrain start times based on availability of work-in-process inventory.

  • Compatibility Scheduling

    Dependency between resources working on different jobs.

  • Material Overlap

    Schedule a job to start before the wip material is completely finished.

FLOW CONSTRAINTS

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  • Alternate Path Scheduling

    Manual accomodation of alternate ways of producing the same product.

  • Automatic Alternate Path Scheduling

    Automatic selection of alternate ways of producing the same product.

  • Operation Overlap

    Schedule a successor operation to start before the predecessor is completely finished.

  • Resource Connectors

    Material flow rules limiting which resources can be seleted based on the resource performing the preceding step.

  • Cellular scheduling

    Scheduling to keep all operations for a job in the same production cell.

  • Max-delay Scheduling

    Maximum delay times between operations (shelf-life, etc.)

  • Keep Successors

    Automatically keep operations on the same resource as the preceding step.

INTEGRATION

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  • Integration Wizard

    Easy setup and automation of data imports.

  • Web Services

    Directly submit information and trigger actions from another program.

  • Real-time file loading

    Immediate reading of custom text files to drive data import or other actions.

  • SAP ERP Integration

    Sap erp integration.

  • SAP Business One Integration

    Sap business one integration.

  • SAP ByDesign Integration

    Sap bydesign integration.

  • Microsoft AX Integration

    Microsoft ax integration.

  • Microsoft NAV Integration

    Microsoft nav integration.

  • Microsoft GP Integration

    Microsoft gp integration.

  • Oracle ERP Integration

    Oracle erp integration.

  • QAD Integration

    Qad integration.

  • Sage MAS 500 Integration

    Sage mas 500 integration.

  • Sage MAS 90/200 Integration

    Sage mas 90/200 integration.

  • Escape Velocity Systems O2 Integration

    Escape velocity systems o2 integration.

  • Vicinity Manufacturing Integration

    Vicinity manufacturing integration.

  • Microsoft SQL Server Integration

    Microsoft SQL server integration.

  • Excel Integration

    Excel Integration.

  • ODBC Integration

    ODBC Integration.

ALERTS & REPORTS

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  • E-Mail Subscriptions

    Subscribe to analytics to receive charts and measures via e-mail.

  • Grid Alerts

    Custom alerts on jobs and inventory with real-time drill-down.

  • My Suggestions

    Custom tailored lists of messages that can be scripted in any Microsoft .Net language.

  • Grid Layouts

    User-configured grids that filter, sort and show information as desired.

  • Job Report

    Report for late jobs.

  • Schedule Reporting

    Report for daily schedule.

  • Performance Reporting

    Report for resource performance.

  • Custom Reports

    Reporting database for ad-hoc reporting.

  • Custom Views

    Screens that are purpose-built to your special needs and written in any Microsoft .Net language.

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