The Production Planner and Scheduler Optimiser (PPSO) is an integrated scheduling application designed for today’s toughest challenges in manufacturing. It is part of the Optimiser suite of optimization applications. The Optimiser scheduler balances competing goals like costs and delays while respecting limits on capacity, changeover times, and other challenges that make manual scheduling inefficient. The PPSO aligns production plans with the corporate strategy. Whether the objective is to produce at the lowest cost, maximize production volume, meet specific customer deadlines, or a combination, PPSO is able to find the plan that does this. All of this leads to improved profitability and long- term growth of our customers.

1. Desicion Optimization for Manufacturing

2. Production Gantt chart and inventory corridor
Manufacturing process diagram
Remove manual work and make the planning process more efficient.
Generate realistic detailed production plans and schedules that help you
meet the inventory levels requested for each finished product. Improve
coordination between raw material, work in progress and finished goods.
Improve plant operations
Create and compare multiple scenarios. Test the effect on the schedule of
different priorities like costs versus on-time delivery, prioritization of different
orders, or prioritization of different customers. Inform management of the
cost and delays incurred in any last minute schedule changes.
Provide cost estimates for schedule changes
Redesign processes to
improve the performance of
the plant. Simulate plant
design changes like capacity
increments, specialization of
production lines. Help
evaluating the return on
investment of new machinery
and facilities and how they
actually help the company
meet its goals.
Redesign processes
and plants

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Validate overall production plans
against the plant schedule and
understand how global decisions
impact plant efficiency.
Help management make more
informed decisions when balancing
the different components of the
supply chain and achieve corporate
strategic targets quickly.
Make a budget for your needs in
terms of materials, equipment,
facilities, maintenance and
workforce.
Quantify and validate
production plans
Global view of the production plan
Monitor adherence to schedules and identify where and why the schedules
are non-compliant. Trace the issues back to their root causes like unreliable
data, faulty equipment or poorly defined processes.
Analyze and control

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The Production Planner and Scheduler Optimiser
(PPSO) is an integrated scheduling application
designed for today’s toughest challenges in
manufacturing.
It is part of the Optimiser suite of optimization
applications. The Optimiser scheduler balances
competing goals like costs and delays while
respecting limits on capacity, changeover times, and
other challenges that make manual scheduling
inefficient.
The PPSO aligns production plans with the corporate
strategy. Whether the objective is to produce at the
lowest cost, maximize production volume, meet
specific customer deadlines, or a combination, PPSO
is able to find the plan that does this.
All of this leads to improved profitability and long-
term growth of our customers.