PLANNING

A powerful medium-term and short-term production planning system that helps metallurgical enterprises produce more, at lower cost, and exactly on time.

Order Planning Demand Calculation Volume-Scheduling Planning Bottleneck Elimination

What is APS Platform Planning?

APS Platform Planning is a modern system built on linear programming algorithms and powerful heuristics. It answers the key production questions:

What to produce considering demand structure and various production schemes
When to produce, meeting deadlines, target inventory levels, and capacity constraints
Where to produce, considering inter-facility cooperation and specifics of each production stage

Key system capabilities:

Demand calculation and automatic creation of production and purchase orders
Volume planning by resources and time periods
Order-specific planning for production lines
Diagnostics and elimination of production bottlenecks

APS Platform also includes a Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) system

Planning Module Description

Main Functions

Diagnostics and automatic bottleneck elimination
Integration with analytical reporting systems
Consideration of all production and commercial constraints
Building sales plans, volume-scheduling plans, and order-specific plans
Ready integration with MES and schedule management systems
Organization of complete business process for plan approval and validation

Main Principles

Key Benefits

Multiple reduction in planning labor intensity
Reduction in work-in-progress levels
Significant increase in OTIF (On-Time In-Full) performance
Improved service level and customer satisfaction
More efficient capacity and production campaign utilization
Complete transparency and justification of all planning decisions