Production Scheduling Software


		Production Scheduler
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LEXPLAN is River Plains' flagship product, which brings great benefits to any size of manufacturers, such as, but are not limited to, reducing production lead time, lowering inventory levels, optimizing resource allocations, answering quickly and accurately the earliest delivery time, timely purchasing of raw materials , etc.

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Production Scheduler FAQ

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Here are three basic questions frequently asked about production scheduler:

	What is the production scheduler?
	-	The production scheduler is a software tool that automatically determines at each production scene what is to be created, how much on which machines, on what timing, with what raw materials, by which resources, and so on. The production scheduler will not only replace older manual scheduling method, which are usually performed using spread sheet and/or generic scheduling software, but will outperform them. For example, it can handle the complicated cases that are difficult to be solved manually and deals with sudden changes of production conditions, such as, urgent orders, resource availability, machine trouble, raw material shortage, etc.
	-	Some production schedulers also include MRP (Material Requirements Planning) function, which provides for you timely and optimal raw material order management based on the scheduling results. With this feature you will avoid shortage or overstock of the raw materials.
	-	Talking about usability aspect, the production scheduler is usually equipped with graphical user interface (GUI) which provides users with an intuitive visual graphics on various chart formats. With these GUI features, the operators and/or supervisors at manufacturing site can easily grasp the status of the production, including workloads, resource/machine usage rates, inventory levels, etc.
	-	Finally, about APS function: “APS” stands for Advanced Planning and Scheduling. APS composes production plan (orders) from sales orders considering the current and future product inventory levels and other constraints. With the APS functionality, you can create entire company's production plan from sales orders through shipments in a sole software. It also allows sales persons to answer customer's inquiries on the delively dates of their orders accurately.

	Why do I need production scheduler?
	-	Because it aids you in increasing your factory's productivity; After introducing the right scheduler you can reduce production lead-time, eliminate excess resources, lower inventory level, increase quality level of final goods, and more; Consequently your profitability will increase dramatically.
	-	Also you can reduce manual scheduling efforts.

	How to choose the best scheduler?
	-	If your production processes are very simple, most of the production schedulers in the market will work. However, usually the production processes are complicated; There may be many constraints, urgent matters, accidents, cancellation of orders, etc. To simulate such intricate operation scenarios, the scheduler must have the following capabilities: Be armed with various features and scheduling logics that can simulate special process characteristics and constraints Show scheduling results in various formats of charts Be able to create various reports and work orders easily Be able to communicate with ERP software and other database software Have graphical data input features (editors) for easy data entry Have a powerful database engine for quick scheduling It is important to make sure that these features are all included in the software package when you choose your production scheduler.

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Why LEXPLAN?

The core engine of LEXPLAN has been making a contribution to various industries in Japan for more than ten years. From such long experience, LEXPLAN is developed with a variety of features and scheduling logics that can simulate different manufacturing scenes and specific operation processes unique to the product. LEXPLAN is suitable for both "discrete" and "batch process" manufacturing, while most of the production schedulers in the market are focusing on only "discrete" manufacturing.

In addition to these well-established scheduling capabilities, LEXPLAN has the state of the art graphical user interfaces (GUI), that include, but not limited to, various GANTT Charts, Forms Creator, Smart Host Interface, and other reporting functions. LEXPLAN's powerful GUI is fully customizable; You can change the field names, color schemes, and layout of the master tables; you can add comments anywhere on the GANTT charts; you can define which information are displayed on/above/under the GANTT chart bars; you can simply create and modify measurement units; and so on.

With these advantages, you can easily return your investments and realize lean manufacturing from the first day you start using LEXPLAN. Please go to LEXPLAN Features to see the details of each feature.

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