flexis Demand Capacity Planning

Integrated planning of demand and capacity

In manufacturing companies, where the margin becomes narrower with increased competition, the clever coordination of demand and capacities decides over success or failure. Overcapacities are economically unjustifiable, too tightly planned capacities result in bottlenecks and in the missing flexibility and ability to respond to market changes. Often transparency of capacity information is lacking in the planning process and methods are missing for considering capacities. Threatening bottlenecks or overcapacities are therefore identified late which results in decreased profitability.

The goal of flexis Demand Capacity Planning

flexis Demand Capacity Planning supports an integrated planning process where demands and capacities are coordinated optimally. Participating company divisions are sales, production plants and planning, as well as logistics and purchasing. The process is accompanied by flexis system components for demand capacity planning which include an effective tool for sales planning and long term demand planning, a bill of material module for parts demand calculation, as well as a capacity module for structured processing of capacity information.

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