When there is a massive inflow or demand of jobs to be scheduled against various production lines, routing sequence, resource constraints and some process conditions, manual efforts using Excel sheet is not sufficient.
Here we help you to automate your Production Planning, Routing and scheduling process using MS Project software. We develop custom Add-In software over MS Project. It can be for production plan on multiple Lines or any other service jobs.
Bulk Job Scheduling in a Batch mode. Saves your planning time.
Customizable Job planning, routing & scheduling rules. Plans accurately without any mistake.
Maximise Production and Eliminate delay.
Alerts for not meeting Deadlines and non-availability of Lines, Tools, Machines, Dies and Space etc. You can take corrective action in advance.
Can check Raw Material availability if stock info available in Inventory system.
Track Job's Actual timings with hourly precision.
Variety of Production / Job Scheduling related reports.
Bottlenecks in the process line can be thus identified and taken care of.
Your Production Order / Job planning, routing, scheduling processes and resources are mapped into MS Project.
Processing conditions and constraints are configured into MS Project or coded into the MS Project software modules.
The new jobs or orders to be scheduled can be made available in Excel CSV file or can be exported from your ERP or CRM.
If Raw material availability information is available in your Inventory system then that can be integrated with MS Project.
Then this customized Add-in module processes the Current schedule and New jobs and generates a revised Current plan within few minutes.
The above Batch processing can be performed at any time interval ( i.e. hourly , daily, weekly etc.)
The Planner / Scheduler need to verify revised Current Plan. He can make final correction in the Revised plan.
You can refer other relevant Project Management Services