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Production Planning
Dynamic, Responsive Production Planning
Balance demand with material, capacity and due date constraints to develop optimized and agile production plans.
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Improvement in order fill rate
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Reduction in production scheduling and inventory
Features & Capabilities
Respond Rapidly with Blue Yonder Production Planning
Adapt and optimize production
Balance fill rates against changeovers
Rapidly re-sequence customer orders and seamlessly adapt production plans to changes in the supply chain. Minimize downtime and maximize efficiency by balancing fill rates with production changeovers. Stay ahead of disruptions and ensure timely delivery with our dynamic scheduling capabilities.
Optimize production mix
Coordinate schedules across facilities, reduce inventory and work-in-process, and minimize equipment changeovers. Achieve a balanced production workflow that maximizes resource utilization and minimizes costs. Enhance your operational efficiency with intelligent scheduling that aligns production capabilities with demand.
Execute one feasible plan
Meet customer commitments while balancing schedules that respect different capacities, material constraints, and workload distributions. Ensure a realistic and achievable production plan that aligns with your operational constraints. Streamline your production process, reducing bottlenecks and improving on-time delivery performance.
Key Benefits
What’s Possible with Blue Yonder
Create one feasible factory plan
Blue Yonder’s Production Planning software simultaneously balances factory throughput with order fulfillment performance, inventory & cycle times to create a single, coherent masterplan.
See What You’ve Been Missing
Blue Yonder’s Production Planning software provides better visibility into material and capacity issues at speed with in-memory planning.
Better integration
The Blue Yonder Platform provides better integration with existing factory systems so you can use a common data model and interfaces to integrate manufacturing planning in the cloud.
Work smarter with Blue Yonder
Improved customer fill rates
Gain visibility into material and capacity issues sooner and easily integrate with MES systems to improve order fulfillment.
Optimized upstream and downstream productivity
Coordinate schedules among various facilities, reduce inventory and work-in-process while minimizing equipment changeovers.
Faster response time
Modify rules, assess different scenarios and respond in real-time to any changes on the shop floor.
Gain visibility into material and capacity issues sooner and easily integrate with MES systems to improve order fulfillment.
Optimized upstream and downstream productivity
Coordinate schedules among various facilities, reduce inventory and work-in-process while minimizing equipment changeovers.
Faster response time
Modify rules, assess different scenarios and respond in real-time to any changes on the shop floor.
Case Studies
Success stories in Production Planning
As Western Digital’s business grew, they needed to migrate from homegrown, spreadsheet-based planning tools to robust, scalable solutions that would support their expanding original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channels and retail presence. Western Digital sought an integrated advanced planning solution that would help them maintain profitable growth and maximize margins while continuing to meet customer demand and increase customer satisfaction. They chose Blue Yonder’s Planning solution to transform their planning processes.
BIC customers purchase 32 million BIC shavers, lighters and promotional products every day. Making sure BIC has the right products in the right places to support this enormous demand takes precise planning. To make this happen, BIC recently deployed factory planning and sequencing application from Blue Yonder in their Charlotte packaging facility, which replaced a manual rolling schedule with an automated process. In this video, Cindy Banks, BIC Global Planning System Manager, explains how the production visibility this provided allowed BIC to collaborate across departments, resulting in a reduction of 40% in changeover time by eliminating one-to-two changeovers per week.