MESA Smart Manufacturing Community: Smart Connected Supply Chain - Optimizing Planning and Scheduling: Can it Pay Off Still?

Description

Come share your experiences, stories, questions, and what you have learned in a safe, non-commercial environment. We seek to understand the state-of-the market, understand what companies have done that has or has not worked, documenting questions that MESA and the community can help answer. Overall, the goal is to accelerate each participant’s learning and progress toward Smart Manufacturing. 

Topic: Optimizing Planning and Scheduling: Can it Pay Off Still?

Planning and scheduling software has long used optimization algorithms to improve fidelity. With so much uncertainty in the economy, supply, demand, and global situations, is there still a business benefit to optimizing planning and scheduling?

• How often must you adjust your plans and schedules based on today’s environment?
  Has that changed in the past few years?
• Forecasting is more difficult than ever – how much effort is optimizing it worth?
• Materials planning is crucial to success as supply sources and product specifications change – what are your best practices and challenges?
• Detailed plant scheduling is often where the squeeze comes in as perfect on-time shipments are needed, even when materials and demand changes are rife. Do you use optimizing resource-savvy scheduling software? How well does that work?
• Are you deploying sales and operations planning (S&OP), integrated business planning (IBP), and integrated tactical planning (ITP)? Do they help with business-level optimization of plans and schedules?

Join us to hear what others are doing and to share your experiences.

Agenda: 

• Thanks to our Sponsor(s) 
• Facilitator introduction 
• Community & Group overview – why participate and what to expect 
• Smart Manufacturing Paradigm 
• Thanks to our Sponsor(s) 
• Summary of last meeting 
• Today's subject 
• Wrap up 
• Next meeting 
• How to keep the conversation going 
• Thanks

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