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Advanced Planning & Scheduling

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Advanced Planning & Scheduling

Blue Yonder’s supply chain solutions, acquired from flexis, digitalizes production planning and scheduling to make manufacturing operations as well as sales & operations execution processes more dynamic and transparent and successfully counteract supply chain bottlenecks.

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Plan with real-time data

Build resilience and increase efficiency with agile integrated production planning

Find out how intelligent advanced planning and scheduling can transform the production efficiency for manufacturers.

increase in adherence to delivery dates

increase in machine utilization

reduction of set-up times

Blue Yonder Expands Capabilities for the Manufacturing Industry

In February 2024, Blue Yonder acquired flexis, a technology provider with 25+ years’ experience specializing in production optimization and transportation planning and execution. This acquisition broadens and deepens Blue Yonder’s ability to serve automotive and industrial manufacturers with highly configurable products and expansive suppliers, unlocking a nimble solution to today’s manufacturing and e-commerce challenges.

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Features & Capabilities

Automated planning, sequencing and scheduling with end-to-end visibility in real time

Order Slotting and Scheduling

Flexibly optimize and manage order schedules

Use sales and production views of your workflow to equally distribute orders and optimize schedules based on configurable constraints with early fault detection. If needed, you can manually reschedule with ease.

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Detailed Scheduling

Plan with a real-time view of resources

Plan production based on the plants, personnel, materials and tools available with an overview of all resources. Compare plans with actual feedback, create what-if scenarios and schedule modifications easily. All online, validated by digital twin models.

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Order Sequencing

Plan and optimize order sequences

Create optimal sequences (pearl chains) across production processes to uniformly distribute work, smooth assembly times, prevent bottlenecks and visualize rule violations when unexpected events occur. Select standard rules from a proven library and configure restrictions according to individual processes.

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Real-time visibility for optimal resource utilization

With accurate software that delivers end-to-end visibility in real time, even the most demanding and variant-rich production processes can balance optimal resource utilization to reliably meet customer requirements every time.

Stable, efficient, optimized production flows

Make production processes leaner and increase productivity with real-time monitoring of daily, weekly and monthly schedules that enable continuous adjustments to improve production efficiency, stabilize processes and optimize costs by increasing output and decreasing rework.

Happier customers and bigger margins

Increase throughput by up to 20%, achieve up to 100% sequence stability and reduce rework by up to 50% to make production processes more profitable, improve margins and increase customer satisfaction.

Work smarter with Blue Yonder

Production planner

With Blue Yonder, you can detect faults, issues and rule violations before they occur so you can spot bottlenecks early and respond flexibly no matter how complex your processes are.

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Ensure high utilization and optimal production flow

Improve utilization with a real-time view of resources, stabilize production flow and reduce rework with optimized production and distribution workflows.

Improve customer fill rates profitably

Increase productivity by equally distributing work content to reliably improve delivery dates while delivering sustainable statements to customers.

Deliver better information within the organization

Gain a real-time view of all production activities to give sales and production teams accurate information about orders in the short, medium and long term for smooth S&OE processes.

Case Studies

Success stories in Advanced Planning & Scheduling

PACCAR manufacturers Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF brand trucks in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, Brazil and the UK. It needed an Advanced Production Scheduling system to match its complex operations with shifting global dema
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Blue Yonder's intelligent solutions enable METRO to optimally balance ambitious customer service targets with inventory controls and accurate resource planning.
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With a revenue of approximately $1.5 billion, Dixon Technologies operates from 21 state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in India and houses three cutting-edge R&D centers in India and China. Learn how Dixon Technologies is on a digital transformation where they take data-driven decisions to serve their customers better - increasing its efficiency and accuracy of supply chain planning with the implementation of Blue Yonder solutions.
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To support both financial and merchandise planning, DSW implemented a state-of-the-art Blue Yonder retail solution. Able to align planning, assortment allocation and pricing, DSW can project the right inventory levels, keep stores optimally stocked and purchase the right products, even the right mix of shoe sizes.
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