Planning & Scheduling

Planning & Scheduling

Implementation Engineers works with clients to improve the planning and scheduling process of determining how manufacturing will produce goods efficiently while meeting customer demand and optimizing the use of resources like labor, equipment, and materials. It involves deciding what to produce, when to produce it, and in what quantities, ensuring that production aligns with both customer orders and the organization's capacity. Effective planning and scheduling require cross-department coordination and linkages, including demand forecasting, capacity planning and master scheduling, material requirements planning (MRP) and production scheduling, among others. Frequent benefits we work with clients to achieve are increased equipment utilization and uptime and better cost control. A driver of these benefits can come from several operational factors such as a reduction in the required tooling changeovers based on the production schedule, reduced material shortages on the production line, and improved labor resource utilization. We partner with companies to hand-in-hand execute these improvements and realize the associated benefits and intended value.

$6.2M P&L impact from total project

97% On Time Delivery

Product Wheel & Line Assignments on 72% of Volume

IX® in Action

Our client, a US-based food manufacturer, struggled with production planning and had frequent production scheduling disruptions driven by the sales team that resulted in production delays and material shortages. These utilization delays on the production floor resulted in reduced facility capacity and customer service levels. Implementation Engineers was engaged to implement a better and more disciplined Planning and Scheduling process. Activities during IX® included:

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