Product/Service
Scheduling Applications
Source: AIM Computer Solutions, Inc
The system avoids over-planning of resources and excess labor costs...
- The system avoids over-planning of resources and excess labor costs.
- Costed sales forecast report shows the profit impact of the current schedule.
- Uses infinite planning time periods (bucketless) so reports can be viewed with several weeks of firm demand and several months or years of forecast demand.
- MRP and CRP only use data coming from the Production Schedule system so no additional data entry is needed and MRP only reflects the latest schedule.
- Regenerative logic works best for high-volume, repetitive manufacturers who receive a new schedule every week and has a defined bill of materials.
- CRP takes into consideration current work-in-process quantities and looks at the process routing and bills of material to plan capacity requirements.
- Direct update from material releases
- Manufactured item forecasting
- User defined demands may be added to schedule
- Net availability planning
- Bucketless planning periods
- User defined report layouts
- Maintain master production schedule requirements
Material Requirements Planning
- Complete gross to net planning logic
- Firm planned orders
- Shop calendar by workcenter
- Planned order reports
- Calculations based on warehouses
- Bucketless planning periods
- Purchased item demand and timing
- Net availability and pegged demand reports
Capacity Requirements Planning
- Bucketless planning periods
- Workcenter loading individually or by workcenter class
- Flexible report layouts
- Infinite loading of workcenters
- Scheduling base date
- Ability to move requirements to a different workcenter within a planning period
- Flexible demand time fence
- Rules based capacity schedule
AIM Computer Solutions, Inc, 42872 Mound Road, Sterling Heights, MI 48314. Tel: 810-254-8600; Fax: 810-254-4241.

