Capacity Planning

Visually inform and act upon on plant capacity utilization constraints and outcomes.

Initiate

Maintain and utilize resource capacity information: By employee, skill set, workgroup, work center, shift, and calendar day-week.
Support prioritized alternate resources designations for item routing steps.
Easily create alternate outside process shop orders or alternate internal routings based on capacity shortages.

Progress

Highlight overbooked departments and work centers, with what if analysis for user specified reassignments.
Easily allow work center reassignments of open jobs.
For multi-warehouse companies, recommend warehouse source based on available inventory and prior commitments.

Deliver

Workflow tools for capacity-based analysis and order commitments to customers.
Pivot table outputs to make the management case for capacity changes at work center, departmental, customer, and plant levels.
Report current and future loads based on released, planned, or forecasted orders and standard or actual hours required.

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