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Factory planning is designed to create constrained master production schedules and coordinate material release into production using just-in-time (JIT), CONWIP, and other techniques, as well as balance production around bottlenecks.
Factory planning can support lean concepts and techniques including the creation of smoothed (heijunka) production plans and schedules. The solution can provide rapid visibility of problems, drill-down analysis, interactive problem solving, and automatic optimization.
The solution is also designed to provide variations for the needs of both discrete and process manufacturers.
Capabilities of the i2 solution for factory planning can include:
- Management of customer and in-transit buffers to ensure optimum service levels
- Consideration of resource and asset utilization
- Consideration of product attribute and labor constraints
- Immediate problem visibility with interactive and automatic problem resolution
- Ability to allocate constrained materials and capacity while meeting due dates and customer priorities
- Bi-directional propagation of material issues to quickly understand the impact on both demand and supply
Benefits of the i2 solution for factory planning can include:
- Increased production throughput (asset productivity)
- Increased labor productivity through improved planning
- Improved margin through improved product mix
- Improved planner productivity
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