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One of the biggest challenges in a production facility is the scheduling of labor. It is also one of the largest costs (and one of the hardest to estimate). Many factors can affect labor productivity in such facilities. This is why many...

Factory Scheduling, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Forecasting, scheduling, planner, labor, labor scheduling, Shop floor data collection

In the last decade, the manufacturing industry has been dealing with the rising impact of demand volatility. As its name suggests, demand volatility is defined by a variation in demand for products that include rapidly changing and unpredictable...

Factory Scheduling, Demand Forecasting, Industry Trends, what-if scenario, Demand planning, production management software, how to improve demand planning accuracy, Planning Horizon

Demand forecasting is the process of predicting what the demand for certain products will be in the future. It identifies what both current and future customers will want to buy and tells manufacturing facilities what they should actually produce.

Factory Scheduling, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Material, capacity planning, production planning, finite capacity, project management, supply chain, Forecasting, opportunity, scheduling, JIT, Demand Forecasting