Currently the manufacturing industry is faced with "more varieties, less batch, short delivery, more changes" in the international market environment, the traditional ERP planning model has become increasingly unable to adapt to the management requirements of modern enterprises, expanding the ERP function has become a trend of necessity, the APS (advanced planning and scheduling) system in this case APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) system was born under this circumstance. (APS is an advanced planning and scheduling tool based on supply chain management and the theory of constraints, which contains a large number of mathematical models, optimization and simulation techniques to find optimal solutions to complex production and supply problems)
Enterprise problems:
Orders - does the enterprise meet the demand for random orders ? Frequent changes in plans, plans always fail to keep up with changes; insertion orders are very high, plan adjustment is very difficult; delivery delays often occur, unable to correctly answer the customer's delivery date.
Capacity - the enterprise design capacity is very high, that is, the output can not go, the machine, the personnel busy and idle unevenly, the high cost of production; can not accurately predict the future of the machine capacity load, can not be balanced allocation of production capacity.
Scheduling - in the full schedule of the workshop, scheduling instructions affect the whole body, a single insertion, a process, the back of a series of plans to be adjusted. Who can foresee the future situation? Who can make quick and accurate judgment? Who can balance the planning, production, logistics department of the conflict?
Inventory - often occurring raw materials, components, insufficient stock; semi-finished products, raw materials, inventory levels are very high, in the current management system of their own factories, it is impossible to determine when and how much inventory should be prepared at what point.
Costs - the production cycle of the product is very long; too many planners, poor work coordination; low efficiency and easy to cause waste of funds.
In the face of these problems enterprises need an optimized scheduling software to solve these problems, APS is such a software. APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) is an enterprise management software, which has a highly intelligent production planning and scheduling functions, can be in the multi-tasking complexity of the conditions and the existence of a number of constraints in the production process, the most fully utilize the enterprise's resource conditions, to find the best scheduling results. The core of APS is an optimization engine with the ability to find optimal results.
What kind of APS do companies need:
There are many successful applications of APS in process companies, especially with the integration of MES modules. Process industries such as steel, chemical, electronics, etc. have relatively simple planning and scheduling problems, so optimized scheduling is easy to implement.
APS in the discrete industrial enterprises (small batch, multi-species, order changes), the task, resource complexity, many constraints, process flow is complex, and is a completely dynamic process. What the enterprise needs is to discharge an optimized scheduling plan within a tolerable time (e.g. 10 minutes). And the degree of optimization of this scheduling plan can be judged and quantified, while also predicting the impact on the future (e.g., you can see what will happen in two months).
In November 2009, our company (Shanghai Topchang Information Technology Co., Ltd.) successfully helped Siyuan Electric Company (the first branch) to go live with Asprova APS, and won the e-works 2009 Manufacturing Best Practice Award. Siyuan Electric is a discrete enterprise with complex processes and many constraints, which makes it difficult to implement. Because the software is more mature and the implementation team is strong, Asprova APS can be successfully online.
Asprova APS was founded in February 1994, is Japan's earliest professional production scheduling software enterprises, the number of users more than 1500 factories, Japan No. 1 production planning software, support for multi-language (Japanese, English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Thai); a wide range of application areas (electrical/electronic, metal parts, mechanical, materials, and other). electronics, metal parts, machinery, materials, daily necessities, transportation machines, chemicals, medical supplies, etc.).
APS is highly adaptable. The actual business operation of an enterprise may encounter different requirements at different times, for example, sometimes the shortest delivery time is required, sometimes the optimal utilization of equipment is required, sometimes the minimum inventory is required, and sometimes urgent insertion orders are encountered, APS can be adapted to meet the needs of the enterprise at different times.
Effects of introducing Asprova APS
Developing long-term, accurate, and optimized production plans to provide a basis for corporate decision-making;
Guiding material procurement and shortening the lead time for material procurement;
Avoiding excessive inventory or delayed deliveries due to lack of materials;
Optimizing the use of resources to improve resource utilization;
Reducing the number of machines and machines in the production process;
Reducing the number of machines and machines in the production process;
Reduce machine line downtime, waiting time, reduce costs;
Optimize the process, shorten the production time of the entire product;
Make production management transparent, visual, predictable, quantifiable;
Reduce the inventory of semi-finished products, finished products;
Improve the rate of on-time delivery, significantly improve customer satisfaction;
Reduce labor requirements for production management and production.