Capacity Requirements Planning

CRP Software provides tools for your company’s ability to meet manufacturing demand

VAI and North American Systems capacity requirement planning tools integrates into the rest of your ERP system, such as the shop floor control module, to provide you with a tool that can be used for scheduling production to meet short-term demands, and plan for the future.

Determine soft, firm and planned demand, and analyze the projected and actual capacity requirements to meet this demand.

Being able to view summary information allows you quickly view situations where capacity is short or long, so you can adjust production accordingly to manage resource efficiently. Analyze machine, work center, and department capacities with this flexible tool. You can drill down into detailed scheduling data, viewing specific orders that constitute the demand, and pinpoint production bottlenecks.

To resolve bottlenecks, you can automatically calculate ATP (available to promise) dates. This software module also includes the ability to create finite or infinite capacity schedules based on stated capacity in the shop calendar for each work center.

With this capacity requirements planning tool, you can sort shop orders by due date, critical ration, and created priority. This way you can create job scheduling rules based on these criteria, and determine in which order these shop orders are loaded into the schedule.

Other features include:

• Machine, Work Center, and Department Scheduling
• Daily work load analysis
• Independent capacity loading
• Integrated preventive maintenance scheduling
• Tool tracking
• Outside operations
• Alternate routings
• On-line document attachment
• Capacity rebuild functions
• Real time updates

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