Production Planning & Scheduling

The Production Planning and Scheduling solution is designed for cross-plant planning and scheduling in steel manufacturing. It addresses the challenges faced by production planners, supply chain managers, and operations managers in the steel industry. These challenges include improving production efficiency, increasing sales and profits, reducing production costs and energy consumption, and optimizing inventory management. By increasing throughput with less downtime and longer sequences, streamlining decision-making, and optimizing hot charging, this solution effectively reduces inefficiencies in trade-off optimization and scheduling adaptability. It achieves these goals through advanced flow and order planning, as well as sophisticated scheduling functionalities for casters, Arvedi ESP and similar combined casting and rolling technologies, and flat product or long product production units, including hot rolling, cold rolling, long rolling, as well as pickling, galvanizing, and coating lines.

The Production Planning and Scheduling solution meets the needs of steel producers by improving efficiency in balancing trade-offs among service levels, inventory performance, and capacity utilization. It enhances inventory management, reduces costs, and increases throughput, quality, and service levels through comprehensive scheduling. This solution streamlines decision-making across sales orders, planning, and production processes, optimizing hot charging and avoiding costly material transitions. It supports steel producers in creating user-friendly, fast, and adaptable production line schedules. Key features include flow and order planning, which optimize the balance between service levels, inventory performance, and capacity utilization. The order scheduler maximizes throughput and service levels, ensuring transparency and visibility of line utilization and sales order routing while also providing forecast dates for order fulfillment. Line scheduling offers user-friendly, fast, and adaptable schedules that are KPI-driven, optimizing sequence length, stock levels, and hot charging.

Benefits of Production Planning & Scheduling

• Enhances production efficiency and throughput with less downtime
• Optimizes inventory management, reducing costs and energy consumption
• Enhances sales and profits through enhanced scheduling and informed decision-making
• Provides advanced scheduling functionalities for various production units
• Streamlines decision-making across sales, planning, and production processes
• Supports user-friendly, fast, and adaptable production line schedules
• Maximizes service level and transparency in order fulfillment
• Reduces inefficiencies in trade-off optimization and schedule adaptability