Purchasing an Advanced Planning & Scheduling System

How and Why an APS System System Benefits Manufacturing Plants

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In the quest for continuous process improvement, many manufacturers wisely turn to their planning and scheduling strategies. A quick web search will show that there is an overwhelming amount of information available about planning and scheduling in reference to specific products, terminology, or technologies designed to support these operations. 

 

If you’re considering investing in an advanced planning and scheduling, or “APS,” system, you need to cut through the clutter and find the information that matters most before you make your decision.

IN THIS GUIDE, YOU’LL LEARN:

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What an APS system is and how it impacts planning & scheduling at manufacturing plants.

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The different kinds of APS systems available and their typical costs.

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How an APS system can integrate with an ERP or plant information system.

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The process of installing an APS system.

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The typical return on investment for an APS system.

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Reducing Capital Investment

“Using VirtECS, we were able to debottleneck our largest production facility by identifying a sequence of changes that we never could have evaluated with a spreadsheet model. We reduced the necessary capital investment by $300 million by demonstrating areas where more equipment did not benefit throughput.”

Senior Resource Planning Manager – Biopharma Industry

Big Time Savings

“VirtECS handles all of the ripple effects to the schedule when things change. That is a big time savings in a complicated process with lots of constraints. Not to mention making sure that you don’t miss a constraint!”

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Most Powerful Solution

“I have evaluated more than a dozen process modeling software solutions and VirtECS is hands-down the most powerful for end-to-end capacity analysis”

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Avoid Unexpected Pitfalls

“A Discovery project with APCI helped us to identify and avoid some pitfalls that we had not anticipated. With the initial process model in place we were able to roll right into a Finite Scheduling implementation”

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An Essential Tool

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