Production Planning and Scheduling

Decision One’s Production Planning & Controlling (PPC) Software Solutions is one of the unique software tools that enables manufacturing facilities efficient and effective Cut to Pack Operations Planning as well as Factory Line Planning.

Decision One Textile / Process Industry Solutions offers extremely visual, capacity planning and process modelling software solution which allows the textile process industries to match future demand against available capacity, manage their commitments and improve order confirmation process, work in progress and inventory levels.

Planning and coordinating textile production through the various processes of fabric production (Weaving/Knitting), dyeing and numerous finishing operations means that manufacture has to be tightly controlled.

The textile sector has so far managed all this complexity using spreadsheets and manual methods, very little else exists other than a few, short term machine schedulers that only look a few days ahead. As the fashion sector continues to focus on speed to market and supplier flexibility, the challenges of handling all this manually increase; Decision One provides a much needed alternative.

The PPC tool from DecisionOne facilitates garments, textile and leather manufactures to proactively plan and schedule their production operations in such a manner that could anticipate any bottlenecks and prevent them and act dynamically to address issues.

Salient features of DecisionOne PPC

• Model Your Factory - An intuitive top-down methodology lets you model your factory wherein you can start off with the production plant, add work centers/departments to the plant area and then add Lines / Machines the work centers/departments.
• Dynamic Allocation of Sewing Lines - Planning and implementing machine allocation to workers is always a tedious process, considering the fact that every day, leaves, intervening holidays, overtime requirements due to stringent delivery times. Decision One ensures a smooth ride in allocating or removing machines that ensures dynamic factory shift calendars, Efficiency Profiles, Capacities or the entire factory settings.
• Smart Planning - Utilising Decision One, The Production Planner can easily plan the operations/Events automatically and manually, sequentially or in parallel with 'Dependent Planning' method or 'Independent planning' method to map all the business processes ending in a smooth and timely delivery. Decision One’s automatic indicators will promptly alert you about WIP bottlenecks, materials delay or shipment delay.
• Add Orders - Automatic addition of customer orders lets you generate production schedules considering available machines. What’s more – you can efficiently integrate Decision One with your existing ERP or manually adding order is also possible with Decision One.
• Define Styles/Products - Adding or modifying operations or any critical events which impacts your production Start Date is comparatively easier now with Decision One.
• Drag-and-Drop - Planning an efficient production plan is just mouse-click away. Simple click and then drag-and-drop operations on the planning board and see the impact on your orders, enabling you to make informed decisions.
• Learning Curves - Slow productions and/or handling new style change over period in the production line are no more worrying tasks. Decision One facilitates the Production Planner to come up with own Learning Curve that effectively tackles slow production issues.
• Tracking - No last-minute hurry-ups. Decision One enables Production Planner to come up with diverse planning reports such as Factory Line Plan for all planned operations/orders on a daily basis or even produce a complete plan.

The Planner can effortlessly monitor the executive diaries, Fabric Production T&A, Material Order status and Materials in-house status to generate executable production plan by considering all constraints.