What is an APS system? | Automated Production Planning with L-mobile

What is Advanced Planning and Scheduling? How can such a system provide automated production planning and how does such intelligent production planning software actually work? The key facts about an APS system briefly explained:
An APS system—also known as an Advanced Planning and Scheduling System—is software that helps with planning, management, monitoring, and optimization along the entire supply chain from supplier to end customer. The software especially supports with automated production planning.

Why is a digital and automated solution for production planning so important for manufacturing companies? The requirements for competitive and successful manufacturing are high. Processes should be easily planned, controlled, and efficiently implemented. In addition, the goal is to achieve holistic transparency in all areas of the company, as well as the automation of efficient material flow control and the networking of all technologies and software solutions for the individual processes on a single platform. Controlling all these production processes is highly complex and often very time-consuming. In the industrial environment in particular, a large number of production orders must constantly be distributed to machines, personnel, and other resources in a sensible and cost-efficient manner—which often presents companies with big challenges.

Through a realistic representation, the APS system provides information for resource-oriented rough and detailed planning. All customer and production orders from the ERP system are synchronized and visualized in real time in the production planning software along with a multitude of control variables and parameters from machine and operating data that is relevant for planning. Resources, equipment, and other planning elements can then be adjusted both automatically or manually, and processes can be simulated in order to achieve optimal production planning of your manufacturing—even while a process is running.

The capacities and quantities of resources can be monitored at any time with the help of the APS system. A rule-based algorithm simulates and evaluates different scenarios to come up with the best possible planning. With the help of an APS system, processes can be optimized, better strategic and operational decisions can be made, and multiple allocations of resources can be avoided.

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