Using Connec+ as a link between Customers and Suppliers
Using Connec+ between Planning Cells
An example from Perception PrintPlan, where the planner can see the gap between the completion of his work and the start of can making.
The print planner, or any other planner for that matter, cannot work in isolation. The purple lines and arrows on this part of the plan, show when the decorated plate is due on a component press or can line. These links are set up by the downstream planner and can be made hard or soft. Hard links actually push back can making jobs on the slitting or can schedule if printing is late. A soft link will only warn the next planner in the chain.
This graphical visibility prompts people to take early action to avoid potential problems.
Working Away From The Desk
There is constant pressure on the Supply Chain to produce smaller batches to a shorter lead time. Product life times are getting shorter and the whole Supply Chain is being driven more and more by volatile consumer demand.
Suilven Associates are continually developing technical solutions that will allow all this to happen, without overloading key individuals in the chain. More and more, the scheduling systems will manage by exception and so our software is now available for PDAs and Smart Phones to allow planners and others to work away from their desks.
