Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)

Supply chain management uses manufacturing resources planning to schedule production based job attributes like processing time, due date, selected bottleneck, and to minimize work in process. However, unlike manufacturing resources planning systems (MRP), advanced planning and scheduling (APS) simultaneously plans and schedules production based on available materials, labor, due date, and planning capacity.

The APS system has the capability to analyze job order data and realize finite capacity of the resources available. Jobs are produced based on such as information of available materials, which includes inventory, pending deliveries, labor, and warehouse space. The jobs are then completed based on the user-defined schedule. The manufacturing is then synchronized based on delivery to scheduling of facility capacity.

Production scheduling is determined by you entering each job in sequence depending on the due date, delivery modes, and priority of completion. The information is process and production progresses as each resource becomes available. The operations are then elected from the queue for work to be completed. Production is considered by determining the job attributes like processing time, selected bottleneck, minimize work in process, and minimize the number of set-up changes.

Advanced planning and scheduling will help you to become super efficient in production planning.