APS system, also known as Advanced Planning and Scheduling, business management software.
It is a synchronized, real-time, constrained, simulation of all resources, whether materials, machinery, equipment, personnel, supply, customer demand, transportation, and other factors that affect planning. It is optimized, comparable, and executable for both long-term and short-term planning. It will utilize a memory-based computing architecture, which allows for continuous computational processing.
This revolutionizes the batch computing paradigm. All supply chain constraints can be considered concurrently.
As each change occurs, APS simultaneously checks for capacity constraints,
raw material constraints, demand constraints, transportation constraints, and funding constraints, ensuring that the supply chain plan is valid at all times.
Expanded Information
The functionality of the APS system can be summarized as follows:
1. Simultaneous Planning
Supply planning and demand planning are carried out based on the goals set by the enterprise, taking into account the overall supply and demand conditions of the enterprise. In other words, when planning for demand, the overall supply situation must be taken into account, and when planning for supply, the entire demand situation should be considered at the same time.
2. Considering the optimal planning under the resource constraints of the enterprise
The APS system applies advanced planning techniques and methods such as mathematical models, network models, or simulation techniques, so that production planning can take into account the constraints and goals of the enterprise to formulate a set of feasible and optimal performance production planning.
3. Real-time planning
The APS system is able to utilize this real-time data for real-time planning. In addition, the rapid processing power of the latest information technology enables planners to deal with real-time and rapid exceptions such as material supply delays, production equipment failures, and emergency order insertions.
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