Advanced Planning & Scheduling

Maximise resources, eliminate bottlenecks, and increase throughput with production scheduling tools.

  • Finite and Infinite Capacity Scheduling
  • Machine, Work Centre, and Tool Schedules
  • Visual Schedule Board

Key business benefits

  • Manage change requests with approvals workflow.
  • Control which users can access ECC for design changes.
  • Monitor changes with a historic audit change log with security.
  • Compare BOMs side-by-side to visualise changes.
  • Gain insights into engineering with role-based dashboards and reports.
Related Resources

Manage and Monitor your Shop Floor Schedule and Work Centre Capacity

Acumatica Manufacturing Edition’s Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) allows manufacturers to consistently and cost-effectively meet customer demands by setting accurate and reliable delivery dates based on finite resource availability. Optimise manufacturing production by managing resource constraints, including materials, production capacity, process sequences, tooling, and facility schedules.

Advanced Planning and Scheduling software provides essential planning capabilities, real-time insights into production, and the ability to accurately schedule employee and machine resources. It allows you to determine requirements for materials and capacity while providing efficient use of production assets.

FINITE CAPACITY SCHEDULING

Know how much work can be produced in a given timeframe, considering various resources and demand limitations.

ROUGH CUT CAPACITY PLANNING (RCCP)

Verify that you have sufficient capacity available to meet the capacity requirements for your master schedule.

CAPABLE TO PROMISE (CTP)

Access Capable to Promise (CTP) from sales orders and quotes to calculate availability dates for manufactured items considering constraints and lead times.

VISUAL SCHEDULING

Visualise your production schedule with a graphical view of production order operations by work centre and machine.

We were running blind before. Now, we can see volume, location, type of product, and managers can prepare and put new orders into the production schedule.

–Tim Patton, ICT Director, SAM

Resource Capacity

Use rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP) to plan, monitor, and manage work centre, machine, tool, and labour capacity. Finite scheduling considers operation durations based on crew sizes and labour efficiency.

Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP)

RCCP schedules open production orders against finite capacity constraints. Optionally, the orders selected can be released. Orders are loaded and scheduled in sequence based on priority, constraint dates, and production order numbers. The availability of material is considered including supply orders such as purchase orders, transfer orders, or component production orders. Planners may exclude planning orders from RCCP to focus only on actual production orders.

Capable to Promise (CTP)

Use Advanced Planning and Scheduling to determine how many units of an item will be available by a specified date or calculate availability dates for a quantity of items based on finite capacity constraints, material availability, and vendor lead times.

Dispatch Lists

Utilize work centre and machine dispatch reports for a clear view of scheduled production orders and operations. View reports identifying required resources for scheduled production orders.

Visual Schedule Board

Visualise your production schedule with a graphical view of production order schedules by work centre and machine. Visual scheduling enables users to view scheduled operations against work centres and machines for individual production orders or all orders simultaneously.

Firm Schedules

Firm schedules to lock in planned production operations for work centres and machines.

Scheduling Utilities

Use filters to locate production orders by sales order, scheduling status, and other criteria. Identify work centre and machine capacity with built-in histograms. The color-coded schedule makes it easy to identify production orders and operations.

Queue, Finish, and Move Time

Improve scheduling precision by defining finish, move, and queue times for manufacturing operations that require cooling, drying, movement to upstream operations (such as outsourced manufacturing services), and other expected non-production scheduling time.

Scheduling Changes

Adjust constraint dates and priorities and firm schedules from the visual schedule board.

Real-Time Insights

Gain insights into production schedules with real-time data from the shop floor feeding role-based dashboards, live Generic Inquiries, and actionable Business Events for push notifications when scheduling issues require immediate action.