Chemicals manufacturers face pressure to conform to stringent government regulation. Yet they must develop new products, formulas and packaging options, while maximizing output against capacity limits, to respond to customer demands. That’s why high performance production scheduling is more important, more difficult, and more time-consuming than ever.
Consider these challenges:
How do you update weekly production schedules to satisfy demand and safety stock and account for the latest formula and packaging changes?
How do you create new product campaigns to increase production output yet minimize cleanouts?
How do you protect against quality risks and minimize scheduling errors when handling process constraints in the planning process ?
Solve with Galaxy planning and scheduling platform, you will:
- Create production schedules, and maximize order fill rates, that reflect latest forecasts, orders, and safety stock requirements
- See any expected stock-outs and insufficient capacity with tools to easily replan, make “drag and drop” changes, and evaluate what-if scenarios
- Know with certainty that all production constraints are dealt with: equipment capacity and selection, tooling requirements, sequencing rules and more
Functionality at the Galaxy Level:
- Model run rates by product, by resource
- Prevent spoilage between production steps with continuous flow rules
- Limit movement on resource-to-resource material from physical material-handling equipment with inter-resource conveyance constraints
- See immediate impact on inventory with drag-and-drop scheduling of orders
- Manage availability of inventory storage in tanks, bins or other containers to enhance production flow with intermediate storage constraints
- Accommodate one resource feed to multiple downstream resources with shared-input constraints, and run compatible products from secondary resources in unison
- Avoid accidental scheduling of products in unacceptable sequences, and cross-contamination, with customizable rules
- Batch requirements into efficient campaigns with the benefit of demand timing
