SmartFactory Enterprise Planning
In your fab, how do you respond to customer forecast changes?
SmartFactory Enterprise Planning is a supply chain planning solution that includes a fast planning engine to improve on-time delivery and responsiveness for manufacturers. Unlike many planning solutions, which require complex deployments and customizations, SmartFactory Enterprise Planning is integrated from planning through execution, offering an open-box approach with increased accuracy and faster response to customer forecast changes.
Why choose SmartFactory Enterprise Planning?
95% reduction in planning downtime
10–30% improved planner productivity
3–5% capacity utilization improvement
What can you gain from our approach?
Automated data input
- Use Applied’s APF technology to automatically gather and load all necessary planning data
- Quickly generate supply plans using proven, high speed data extraction and processing
Fast response times
- Optimize on-time delivery and other objectives using planning engine with fast mathematical solver
- Execute fast “what if” scenario planning or re-planning to enable quick response times to customer requests
Data linking
- Integrate seamlessly with SmartFactory solutions through common framework from dispatching to automation
- Link enterprise planning to shop floor dispatching to provide early warning capability
