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In a global environment marked by fluctuating demand profiles, distributed supply sources, customers’ expectations of rapid response, and an expanding product footprint, there is an ever-growing need to improve factory performance, which is the primary source of creating value for customers. Many challenges impede the achievement of enhanced factory operations, however, including managing short product life cycles, evaluating alternatives to manage supply chain risks, minimizing liabilities, and handling multi-mode production—all while trying to achieve lean operations.
i2 Manufacturing Management synchronizes material between the factory floor and multi-tiered supplier operations and optimizes capacity and labor while reducing inventory and order-to-delivery lead times. The i2 manufacturing management solution is a comprehensive methodology incorporating i2’s deep domain expertise in planning, scheduling, execution, and collaboration processes. It provides intelligent material, capacity, and constraint management, along with the quick detection of problems, proactive exception-based management, and rapid “what-if “analysis, to streamline factory and supplier operations. Companies can consolidate planning and execution workflows, eliminating mismatches that create chaos and non-value added activities on the shop floor.
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Factory Planning
Modern factories deal with shorter lead times and more customization while simultaneously pushing to increase speed and throughput. To meet those requirements, organizations need factory systems that optimize speed and productivity while reducing overall production costs.
i2 Factory Planner is designed to allow an organization to more precisely manage key manufacturing variables, from work center capacity and setup times to material availability, labor availability, due dates, and corporate production policies. Factory Planner is built on the principles of lean manufacturing and constraint-based planning, to get the best throughput and customer-service levels at the lowest inventory level and cost.
This solution has been deployed in more than 500 production settings, including both discrete and process manufacturing environments. Factory Planner has been installed in varied industries including consumer packaged goods, consumer electronics, metals, automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, and high-tech assembly.
Mill Scheduling
i2 Mill Scheduler is designed to solve order planning problems. Mill Scheduler can also take business rules such as due dates, customer priorities, and allocation constraints into account. This solution can support diverse optimization strategies in the metals sector through built-in optimizers, and also provides powerful manual scheduling capabilities.
Customer Order Fulfillment
i2 Customer Order Fulfillment is designed to link every phase of order fulfillment, from capture to invoice and settlement, and with close integration to the demand management and order planning loops. This end-to-end solution can create a single face to the customer across disparate processes, lines of business, geographies, and IT systems.
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i2 has 20 years of direct experience in helping customers from a wide spectrum of industry sectors—including automotive, industrial, high-tech, semiconductor, consumer electronics, aerospace and defense, and others—to solve challenging problems related to factory planning, job scheduling, production execution, and supplier material coordination and tracking. i2 Total Factory Management provides the most comprehensive solution footprint to deliver rapid results and support a lean and agile factory as well as supplier operations.
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"Building a long-term relationship made sense. Using i2’s services, we believed that we could achieve a total return on investment. Our project goals were to shorten the planning cycle, to increase responsiveness, and to utilize "what-if" analyses. We have achieved those primary goals ... We’re tremendously happy with i2 solutions, and I think we got more than our dollar value out of our implementation. There are a lot of other miscellaneous benefits that we’ve encountered. I don’t think I can possibly name them all."
-- Mike Dager
Production Planning Administrator
North American Tire Division
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
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