Many commercial MRP, ERP, and SCM
software products for scheduling and
resource planning available to manufacturers share a similar strategic
objective: that is, to increase profits by improving customer service and
minimizing the cost of production and inventory. These products are usually designed to
improve profitability after sale commitments have been made on
customer orders or sales forecasts by reducing manufacturing costs, and a 5% to 10% improvement
gained from implementing these systems is considered impressive.
By contrast, what makes OSP
unique and distinctive is its implementation of optimizing techniques with strategic planning to provide marketing and manufacturing management with the means to
generate optimum plans for accepting orders and scheduling production before
making sales commitments and scheduling production. These optimum
plans determine which products or product mix from current orders and
forecasts will optimize profitability and productivity,
while staying within the constraints of customer
demand and available resources across the manufacturing chain for each
planning period.
After these plans have been
established and approved with sales commitments subsequently made, improved
customer service with minimized cost becomes the tactical objective.
Productivity and profitability are thereby planned, and results from OSP
implementations show optimum plans with an 80% to 100% improvement
in profitability, with significant increases in productivity.
This optimized strategic
planning capability, along with recent advances in PC hardware, user-friendly
Windows software, and the routine exchange of information over the Internet,
makes OSP a practical, powerful and profitable strategic planning tool
for manufacturing companies.
Scope's software is MS
Windows-based and written in Visual Basic using MS-Access databases.
