flexis Order Slotting

flexis Order Slotting mediates between sales and production – high adherence to delivery schedules with high flexibility

Order slotting – the assignment of orders to assembly sites in weekly or daily pools – is a critical tool for the safeguarding of material supply and the optimization of adherence to customer delivery schedules. Order planning today is mostly driven by sales and takes into consideration the requirements of production only with regard to total producible number of units.

Even logistics is often neglected. The result: expensive countermeasures or decreased customer satisfaction. Global component strategies with long delivery times increase this effect. Transparency of the entire process and integration of sales and production are therefore indispensable.

The Benefits of flexis Order Slotting

It is the task of order slotting to mediate between the customer‘s wish and therefore the sales department’s wish to be as flexible as possible, and the necessity to uninterrupted production. Capacity for confirmed delivery dates from the sales department has to be safeguarded.

In addition, long lead time components and their procurement times have to be taken into account in order planning. Bottlenecks as well as no load operations in production have to be recognized early on to be able to counter steer proactively. Sales has more freedom in negotiations with clients if these requirements are met, but it also safeguards an uninterrupted distribution of buildable customer orders and evenly utilized mid-term production.

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