The
Optimized
Strategic Planning
module provides the following procedures:
Optimum Strategic Plans This procedure analyzes the criteria set in the
user-defined strategic plan for accepting customer orders and demand forecasts.
Sales and production optimum solutions are determined that optimize the
selected objective, such as maximized profit or minimized cost,
using the constraints imposed by customer demand and manufacturing resources
available.
Customer demand
constraints must be placed on quantities of each end product by selecting a
strategic plan. Resource constraints can
also be placed on direct labor, raw
materials, machinery, variable costs, and other production-related variables. Machine capacity constraints at each process, and machine loading constraints on products loaded on
specific machine types at each process can also be selected by the user.
These analyses determines
optimum process schedules, showing processes where production
bottlenecks occur along with the products whose quantities should be excluded,
reduced, or moved to different time periods. The impact of accepting these
customer orders and demand forecasts on the financial and production-related resources is also shown.
The following are sample screens for analysis of
single-period plans:
Optimum Plan Solution
Customer
Demand Constraints
Resource
Constraints
Machine
Capacity Constraints
Machine Loading Constraints
Optimum
Schedules
Optimum Resources
The following are sample screens for analysis of
multi-period plans:
AutoOptimize Customer Orders
Optimum Demand Orders
Shortfall Demand Orders
Optimum Demand Machines
Adjusted Customer Orders
AutoOptimize Demand Forecasts
Optimum Scheduled Production
Shortfall Scheduled Production
Optimum Scheduled Machines
Adjusted Demand Forecasts
The
Supply
Planning
module can
analyze the optimum strategic plans for selected periods or multi-period
selections from the plans determined in this module.
