Production and Manufacturing
Discover the solutions of the proALPHA Group for your field
Discover the solutions of the proALPHA Group for your field
Manufacturing goods of various types, both in make-to-order and series production, is a challenging process. The proALPHA Group has many years of experience with regard to production. Our solutions help you to gradually become a highly efficient smart factory.
"Since we established a multi-resource planning system for all sites, our delivery reliability has increased from 75 to 92 percent."
Werner Kister, Commercial Director, isel Germany AG
In make-to-order and series production, it is crucial to provide the correct tools and the specialists available with the required quantity of material in time. This saves production time and costs. proALPHA therefore plans and optimizes resources according to managerial targets such as delivery reliability and cycle times. Furthermore, employees with different qualification profiles can be scheduled for certain production operations across processes.
This enables you to plan ahead and immediately react to changes and fluctuations in demand. You can also immediately react to changes and fluctuations in demand. proALPHA takes all the factors relevant to production into consideration to create a flexible, coordinated master plan. Bottlenecks are avoided.
APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) is the core of proALPHA Production. It allows optimized resource planning according to managerial targets such as delivery reliability and cycle times. proALPHA issues warnings in case of bottlenecks or overloads, prioritizes work orders, and suggests alternate resources.
proALPHA completely dispenses with bills of materials and routings for production planning and uses product process models instead. The structures of products and processes are no longer tightly linked to each other. This allows versatile production planning in which outsourcing, changes to the schedule and the parallel processing of several orders can be included.
Product process models enable planners to optimally utilize resources and monitor material, tools, human resources, and deadlines. It is possible to assign any number of resources to an operation, synchronize the availability of these resources, and provide the required material. Finite planning allows manual changes to the sequence in which orders are processed on short notice.
Continuous master production scheduling is used in series production to determine medium-term and long-term demands. MPS defines which products are manufactured in specific planned periods. Long lead parts which are hard to procure can be effortlessly provided thanks to the integrated project management.
Feasible delivery dates can be determined from within sales orders in proALPHA. Capable-to-promise checks prevent impossible deadlines from being confirmed, for example, delivery dates requested by sales. Reliable deadlines, however, are communicated to customers early on.
Are you planning to introduce or expand one of our solutions? With over 35 years of ERP experience, Michael Ludes is your ideal contact for all questions relating to our product portfolio.
MICHAEL LUDES
Vice President Presales proALPHA