Create and maintain production work centers with unique codes, names, descriptions, and organizational groupings for complete shop floor representation.
Work Center Management
Define work center capacity types (machine, labor, or both) with specific attributes and constraints for each resource category.
Work Center Management
Set daily available hours per work center with calendar-based variations for shifts, holidays, and maintenance windows.
Work Center Management
Configure and track efficiency rates (0-100%) per work center to account for real-world performance versus theoretical capacity.
Work Center Management
Real-time utilization tracking showing actual versus planned capacity usage with historical trend analysis.
Work Center Management
Define hourly operating costs and setup costs per work center for accurate production costing and financial planning.
Work Center Management
Mark work centers as critical resources or known bottlenecks for prioritized scheduling and capacity monitoring.
Work Center Management
Track work center status (active, inactive, maintenance) with automatic schedule adjustments during downtime periods.
Work Center Management
Define queue times representing wait time before processing begins for accurate lead time calculations.
Work Center Management
Configure move times between operations for realistic routing and material flow modeling.
Work Center Management
Organize work centers into logical groups for pooled capacity management, resource flexibility, and consolidated reporting.
Work Center Grouping
View and manage capacity across work center groups with automatic load distribution among similar resources.
Work Center Grouping
Define substitution rules allowing work to shift between group members based on availability and capability.
Work Center Grouping
Visual load profiles showing required versus available capacity across daily, weekly, or monthly time buckets.
Capacity Load Analysis
Flexible date range controls (7, 14, 30, 90 days) for focused or extended capacity analysis periods.
Capacity Load Analysis
Switch between daily, weekly, and monthly aggregation for appropriate planning granularity.
Capacity Load Analysis
Filter load profiles by specific work centers or groups for targeted capacity analysis.
Capacity Load Analysis
Color-coded status bars indicating underload (green), normal (blue), warning (yellow), and overload (red) conditions.
Capacity Load Analysis
Automatic detection and highlighting of periods where required capacity exceeds available capacity.
Capacity Load Analysis
Identify periods of excess available capacity for potential additional work or cost reduction opportunities.
Capacity Load Analysis
Visual timeline showing utilization percentages across the planning horizon with trend indicators.
Capacity Load Analysis
Schedule operations forward from the current date or planned start date to determine completion dates.
Production Scheduling
Schedule backward from due dates to determine required start dates for on-time completion.
Production Scheduling
Schedule against actual available capacity with automatic conflict detection and resolution.
Production Scheduling
Plan without capacity constraints for rough-cut planning and demand analysis scenarios.
Production Scheduling
Include or exclude planned orders, released orders, and firm planned orders from scheduling runs.
Production Scheduling
Visual Gantt interface displaying scheduled operations across work centers with drag-and-drop capabilities.
Production Scheduling
Color-coded operation bars indicating scheduled (blue), in-progress (yellow), completed (green), and late (red) status.
Production Scheduling
Visual capacity load indicators showing utilization percentage per work center per day.
Production Scheduling
Hover tooltips displaying detailed operation information including order number, quantities, and timing.
Production Scheduling
Automatic identification of overloads, deadline misses, resource unavailability, and material shortages.
Production Scheduling
AI-powered identification of production bottlenecks using utilization patterns and throughput analysis.
Bottleneck Analysis
Calculated bottleneck scores (0-100) based on utilization rates and overload frequency for prioritization.
Bottleneck Analysis
Classify bottlenecks as critical, moderate, or minor based on impact severity and delivery risk.
Bottleneck Analysis
Quantify the impact of bottlenecks on on-time delivery performance with monetary impact estimates.
Bottleneck Analysis
Intelligent recommendations for capacity additions, shift adjustments, overtime, outsourcing, or rescheduling.
Bottleneck Analysis
Priority-ranked recommendations with estimated cost, impact, and implementation timeline.
Bottleneck Analysis
Automatic overtime suggestions when overload is less than 20% of capacity.
Bottleneck Analysis
Shift addition recommendations when overload exceeds 20% requiring more significant capacity increase.
Bottleneck Analysis
Outsourcing suggestions for critical bottlenecks where internal capacity cannot meet demand.
Bottleneck Analysis
Track bottleneck trends over time with improving, stable, or worsening indicators.
Bottleneck Analysis
Proactive alerting for capacity issues before they impact production schedules or deliveries.
Capacity Alerts
Automatic notifications when work center load exceeds configured thresholds.
Capacity Alerts
Alerts for significant underutilization to identify cost reduction or additional work opportunities.
Capacity Alerts
Early warning when current schedules risk missing customer delivery commitments.
Capacity Alerts
Notifications when bottleneck conditions develop or worsen at critical work centers.
Capacity Alerts
Alerts for upcoming maintenance windows affecting capacity availability.
Capacity Alerts
Notifications when work center efficiency falls below expected levels.
Capacity Alerts
Adjustable alert thresholds for overload, warning, and underload conditions.
Capacity Alerts
Alert categorization by severity (critical, warning, info) for appropriate response prioritization.
Capacity Alerts
Track alert acknowledgment to confirm issues have been seen by responsible personnel.
Capacity Alerts
Mark alerts as resolved with resolution timestamps for issue management and audit trails.
Capacity Alerts
Create capacity planning scenarios for evaluating different demand, capacity, or scheduling assumptions.
What-If Scenario Planning
Support for baseline scenarios, what-if analysis, and committed plans with appropriate status tracking.
What-If Scenario Planning
Model capacity changes including additional shifts, overtime, equipment additions, or temporary workforce.
What-If Scenario Planning
Test impact of demand increases, decreases, or timing changes on capacity requirements.
What-If Scenario Planning
Side-by-side comparison of scenario results to evaluate alternatives objectively.
What-If Scenario Planning
Aggregate results showing total load, utilization, bottlenecks, on-time delivery rates, and feasibility.
What-If Scenario Planning
Clone existing scenarios to create variations without rebuilding from scratch.
What-If Scenario Planning
Track scenarios through draft, running, completed, and archived states.
What-If Scenario Planning
Live monitoring dashboard with KPIs for total capacity, utilization rates, active plans, and critical alerts.
AnalyticsReporting
Historical trend charts showing utilization patterns over the past 30 days.
AnalyticsReporting
Prioritized list of top 5 bottlenecks with severity indicators and quick-action links.
AnalyticsReporting
7-day lookahead showing anticipated capacity overloads for proactive planning.
AnalyticsReporting
Detailed utilization reports by work center with target comparisons and variance analysis.
AnalyticsReporting
Track efficiency performance against targets with trend analysis and root cause indicators.
AnalyticsReporting
Identify and quantify unproductive time for capacity improvement initiatives.
AnalyticsReporting
Export reports and analysis results to CSV for further analysis or stakeholder sharing.
AnalyticsReporting
Advanced scheduling optimization using genetic algorithms for complex multi-constraint problems.
Optimization Engine
Alternative optimization method for finding near-optimal solutions in large solution spaces.
Optimization Engine
Mathematical optimization for linear constraint satisfaction in capacity allocation.
Optimization Engine
Performance comparison across algorithms showing convergence scores and improvement percentages.
Optimization Engine
Historical tracking of optimization runs with execution time, iterations, and outcomes.
Optimization Engine
Measure capacity throughput improvements achieved through optimization.
Optimization Engine
Quantify cost savings from improved scheduling and capacity utilization.
Optimization Engine
Configure planning horizon, time bucket granularity, and order type inclusions.
ConfigurationSettings
Set default scheduling method (forward/backward) and capacity mode (finite/infinite).
ConfigurationSettings
Configure default efficiency and utilization rates for new work centers.
ConfigurationSettings
Define working and non-working days with multiple shift configurations per work center.
ConfigurationSettings
Customize overload, warning, and underload thresholds for alert triggering.
ConfigurationSettings
Configure connections to MRP, manufacturing, and other dependent systems.
ConfigurationSettings
Receive planned orders from material requirements planning for capacity requirements generation.
Integration Capabilities
Bidirectional sync with manufacturing execution for actual production status and updates.
Integration Capabilities
Connect with enterprise systems for master data synchronization and order updates.
Integration Capabilities
Publish capacity events to enterprise event bus for cross-system notifications.
Integration Capabilities
Comprehensive REST API for programmatic access to all CRP functions and data.
Integration Capabilities
Redistribute orders from overloaded to underloaded work centers automatically.
Level Loading
Verify work center capabilities before reassigning operations to ensure production quality.
Level Loading
Suggest alternative production routes when primary work centers are overloaded.
Level Loading
Optimize load distribution across the planning horizon to smooth capacity requirements.
Level Loading