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Scheduling |
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The number one reason for implementing a
new ERP system is to get control of your work schedule. On-time
deliveries can be even more important than price in driving the success
of your business.
JobOps Scheduling Software take a realistic approach to delivering the
tools the you need, and can use, letting you get control over the
scheduling issues that impact getting jobs done on time.
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Capable to Promise |
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Since being able to deliver on time really
begins with the original promised ship date, JobOps begins the
scheduling process as early as the time of the quote or acceptance of
the order. The JobOps Scheduling Module provides for a “Capable to
Promise” calculation when quoting or booking orders. This calculation
analyzes the time required for the job against the currently scheduled
jobs. It also analyzes the availability of materials required for the
new job. The Capable to Promise calculator then returns the earliest
possible completion date, so that you can discuss it with you customer
before committing to the ship date they are requesting.
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Capacity Planning |
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Do you have finite resources available to
complete your jobs? In an ideal world, a scheduling system would make
sure that your resources are never overloaded.
If you allow sales and customers to determine requested ship dates, in
effect, you are running your operations as if your resources have
infinite capacity. In the real world, when you overload your resources,
you still need to deliver on time. Therefore your options are to run
overtime, or reassign the work to another resource.
JobOps Scheduling Engine combines the ideal world with the real world.
For those resources that always seem to be the bottlenecks in your
schedule, JobOps will plan around these finite resources. For the
resources where overtime or reallocation is an option, it will plan
infinitely.
The scheduling engine will load your new jobs, according to your finite
and infinite rules, into the schedule by reverse scheduling from the
promised ship date. If the scheduling engine determines that the start
date for the job is earlier than the current date, it will stop the
reverse scheduling process and forward schedule the job. JobOps will not
create an unrealistic schedule for a job, but it will alert you to jobs
that are now marked as “late” and will require additional attention.
(Click here for tools to fix late jobs)
The graphical schedule board will then immediately alert you to
overloaded resources that could jeopardize the schedule and also
provides tools allowing you to correct the problems. These tools are
used in a “what if?” mode so that before committing to the new schedule,
you can verify that fixing one problem did not create a new problem
elsewhere.
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Material Requirements |
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Planning your workload is only effective if
you have the materials available that are required by the jobs you are
scheduling.
JobOps Scheduling takes your material availability into account in being
able to create the optimal schedule. Using JobOps automated purchasing
(see the “Purchasing” page) can only assure that materials are ordered
on time – it cannot guarantee that your vendors will deliver as
promised.
Releasing a schedule to your work force for jobs that have material
shortages will only waste their time as they search for the missing
materials – thereby increasing the cost of the job, since they have now
lost valuable time.
JobOps alerts you to material shortages in the graphical scheduling
board. It also allows you to drill down into the status of these
materials, letting you make decisions about either postponing the work
or “borrowing” the material from another job that the material has been
issued to.
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Drag and Drop Scheduling |
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Once alerted to the possible exceptions of
capacity overloads, material shortages or late jobs, JobOps scheduling
provides tools to help you deal with the issues. Do you have another
resource cross-trained to do the work that is currently scheduled to an
overloaded resource? JobOps graphical scheduling board displays the
workload from jobs as a Gantt chart, or bar graph, against the
resources. Simply drag the task to the cross trained resource and the
work has been reassigned to get done on time, and without using costly
overtime.
If you don’t have another resources available, the schedule board allows
you to change the work calendar on the fly, meaning that you can
increase the hours worked that day to accommodate the requirements from
your jobs – it may mean running overtime, but at least the jobs will get
done on time!.
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