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Planning and Scheduling

Whether you are a global, multi-site enterprise or a single-site manufacturer, the fundamental need for precise and flexible planning and scheduling exists. Specific functionality (e.g., consolidated purchasing, transfer functionality, and consolidated financials) helps global enterprises manage the complexity of their size and take advantage of the efficiencies that smaller organizations enjoy.

Forecasting and Master Production Scheduling

Forecasting and Master Production Scheduling (MPS) in Vantage are designed to assist manufacturers with both day-today production control and long range planning and decision making. Forecasting and MPS support all manufacturing strategies, as well as those manufacturers who operate multiple, mixed-mode strategies simultaneously. Forecasts can be generated from multiple historical sources (e.g., sales, invoice, and inventory usage history).

• Manual forecast entry
• Forecast export
• Forecast import
• Historical forecast sources
• Forecast methods
• Forecast buckets
• Forecast analysis
• Inter-company trading
• Mps entry
• Forecast to mps
• Driving capacity and raw material procurement

Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

Built for the needs of the single site as well as extended enterprise, MRP offers cross plant and cross company planning. Enhanced to offer plant source as well as product group sourcing of materials and assemblies, Vantage MRP automatically and visually extends the enterprise to efficiently manage supply and demand.

• Forecast
• Master production schedule
• MRP generation
• Material planning
• Dynamic lead-times
• Part planning tools
• Planning horizon
• Multi-site
• Multi-level pegging
• Sourcing by plant
• Available-to-promise
• Planning types
• Bill of materials
• Log file

Scheduling

Multiple resource views and online scheduling tools such as the change impact informer offer the master scheduler and management the ability to visually locate overload problems and slack conditions, then perform cost and throughput analysis on schedule changes before they are firmly committed.

• Visual production scheduling board
• Visual alerts
• Finite scheduling
• Drag-and-drop
• Overload informer
• Multi-level assemblies
• What-if
• Setup grouping
• Change impact
• Dual resource constraints
• Resource group
• Dimensional planning
• Rate-based scheduling
• Conditional forward schedule
• Finite load horizon
• Resource-based schedule
• Reschedule delta

Advanced Planning and Scheduling

An extension of scheduling, APS incorporates the strength of the Scheduling engine and enhances it with advanced functionality such as multiple constraint scheduling, a wide range of scheduling methods, visual drag-and-drop scheduling, capability and dependent capability-based scheduling, real-time capable-to-promise functionality, and advanced material planning functionality.

• Multiple resource visual production
• Scheduling board
• Multiple constraints
• Automated scheduling by capability
• Dependent capabilities
• Finite or infinite capacity
• Minimum wip scheduling
• Material constraints
• Advanced material planning
• Change impact analysis
• Resource eligibility
• Time adjustment
• Optimization rules
• Balanced optimization
• Single cell scheduling
• Capable-to-promise
• Unlimited what-if
• Multi-plant communication

Global Multi-Site Management

Supply chains demand synchronization of production with distribution and logistics. This is most effectively accomplished with a single system providing visibility and consolidation of resources in multiple facilities. Companies may also prefer to run business functions centralized with separate production functions, or they may run them separately with the ability to consolidate financials at month- or quarter-end. Vantage supports both scenarios within one application. Multi-Site Management provides support for centralized accounting and purchasing, while allowing separation of production facilities.

• Deployment
• Unlimited hierarchy
• Global customers, parts and vendors
• Credit checking
• Global supplier price agreements
• Sourcing by plant
• Inter-company trading
• Forecasts
• Production plants
• Virtual plant support
• Shared warehouses
• Cost by plant
• Alternate boms and routings per plant
• Plant scheduling functions
• Financial consolidation
• Multiple currencies
• Unique accounts
• Inter-company eliminations
• Growing advantages
• Subcomponent security
• Virtual view

Project Management

Vantage Project Management integrates cost-effective management, tracking, revision, review, and analysis to simplify and streamline all aspects of project administration.

Projects can be generated, modified, reviewed and analyzed— at any time. And project functionality is entirely embedded within Vantage, eliminating the need for additional project management software.

• Project generation
• Project budgets
• Microsoft project integration
• Associate multiple internal contacts with the project
• Project schedule
• Responsiveness and visibility
• Invoicing
• Project analysis
• Cost analysis
• Revenue analysis

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