Switch on Agility With Advanced Planning and Scheduling
How you can easily move away from a spreadsheet-based approach to achieve production agility.
Get Ready for the Switch To Advanced Planning and Scheduling
In an era of relentless disruption and shifting consumer demands, spreadsheet-based manufacturing planning and scheduling can no longer keep pace with agile production. Static planning falls short in adapting to real-time changes or coordinating complex factory operations, leading to inefficiencies and missed delivery windows. As the cost of inaction grows, consumer goods manufacturers need to adopt the speed and flexibility of modern production to remain competitive.
The urgency to act is clear: Manufacturers must make the switch to advanced planning and scheduling that intelligently accounts for real-world constraints and enables agile re-planning. Smart production planning and scheduling is the driving force behind agile production, setting the foundation for efficiency and resilience in manufacturing.
The Right Advanced Planning and Scheduling Solution for Consumer Goods Manufacturers
Dassault Systèmes’ Production Agility solution harnesses true finite capacity planning to help manufacturers model detailed constraints, reflect shop-floor realities and respond effectively to demand volatility and disruptions.
With advanced planning and scheduling capabilities, our solution enables manufacturers to get up and running quickly, enhancing production agility, service levels and throughput. Key features of the solution include:
- Out-of-the-box, configurable software
- Simple and intuitive user interface
- World-class optimization powers
- Superior ‘what if?’ simulation
Unlock these key business benefits with our solution:
Achieve 90% to 100% on-time deliveries
Reduce planning time by 30% to 50%
Lower inventory value by up to 40%
Cut changeover times by 5% to 25%
How Advanced Planning and Scheduling Works
Dassault Systèmes’ Production Agility solution supports manufacturers in aligning production with real-world constraints and dynamic demand. Our solution offers two powerful capabilities, Manufacturing Planning and Detailed Scheduling:
- Manufacturing Planning
- Detailed Scheduling
Manufacturing Planning
The Manufacturing Planning capability improves mid-term production planning by coordinating workloads with factory constraints. It enables agile planning while reducing disruptions and optimizing efficiency.
Key benefits:
- Enhances delivery fulfillments and service levels
- Anticipates and controls load fluctuations
- Synchronizes production across areas and facilities
- Reduces inventory levels and cycle times
- Accelerates finite capacity planning
The Detailed Scheduling capability enhances short-term planning by integrating resource availability into production schedules. It supports rapid adaptation to demand fluctuations and reduce changeover times, all within an intuitive, collaborative environment.
Key benefits:
- Reduces cycle time and work-in-progress (WIP)
- Enhances lead-time reliability and customer service
- Improves productivity by minimizing setup times
- Supports ‘what if?’ scenario planning for better decision-making
- Offers a user-friendly interface for intuitive scheduling
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From Static to Dynamic, Fast: The Planning Solution for Production Agility
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How Does Advanced Planning and Scheduling Support Agile Production?
Production planning and scheduling are key components of manufacturing operations that work together to align factory activities with business objectives, customer demand and efficient resource utilization.
Production planning focuses on long-term strategic decisions — determining what products need to be made, in what quantities and by when. It ensures that materials, labor and equipment are allocated efficiently to avoid production bottlenecks and minimize overproduction.
Production scheduling, on the other hand, is more short-term, which involves organizing and sequencing the specific tasks on the shop floor — deciding when, how and where production activities will take place. Scheduling manages timelines, prioritizes orders and adjusts for multiple constraints in real time to ensure rapid responses to changes in demand or capacity.
Production planning and scheduling software is a digital planning solution that helps manufacturers effectively manage production processes by aligning supply chain activities, resources and timelines with business goals and market demand. It surpasses traditional spreadsheet planning by leveraging real-time data and advanced algorithms to optimize manufacturing planning and scheduling.
Dassault Systèmes’ advanced planning and scheduling solution is designed to help consumer goods factories balance demand and supply efficiently, respond quickly to disruptions and model real-world constraints such as labor, machine availability and changeover times. Key advantages of our solution include:
- Increased agility with finite capacity planning that accounts for actual factory constraints
- Fast, informed decision-making through superior scenario simulation
- Reduced lead times and bottlenecks with world-class optimization powers
- Improved efficiency in re-planning to adapt to disruptions
The best manufacturing scheduling software goes beyond detailed sequencing of tasks during production planning and scheduling. It must enable consumer goods companies to manage complexity with real-time insights and collaborative planning to drive agile production processes.
With advanced planning and scheduling capabilities, Dassault Systèmes’ Production Agility solution is built to address the growing complexity in the home & lifestyle and consumer packages goods & retail industries Our out-of-the-box (OOTB) solution allows manufacturers to get up and running quickly, aligning production with fluctuating demand and factory constraints. With an intuitive interface that is easy to use, it has the ability to:
- Perform finite capacity planning to create realistic schedules by considering machine and labor availability, changeover times plus maintenance windows
- Support scenario simulations that allow planners to run tests before implementation
- Improve production KPIs such as on-time delivery rates, inventory levels and lead times
- Enhance end-to-end visibility across manufacturing processes
Manufacturing planning and scheduling software such as Dassault Systèmes’ Production Agility solution delivers significant value by enabling key production KPIs that allow companies to:
- Decrease planning time by 25% to 70%
- Improve planning agility up to 70%
- Enhance service levels with 100% on-time deliveries
- Boost overall productivity by 10%
- Decrease cycle times and work in progress (WIP) by 50%
- Maintain inventory value under 40%
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