Optimal use of resources: functions for procurement and planning in the plastics industry
Especially in acquisition and planning, the plastics industry places special demands on ERP software.
FOSS users profit from many sector-specific functions for an optimized use of resources and for the guarantee of a high delivery reliability. The efficient requirement planning offers a site and company-comprehensive planning of materials and resources in a continuous and automated planning process also including the online requirement calculation. You can simulate free configurable scenarios for the short, middle and long term planning, which are , at the same time, also based on different planning scenarios. Planning and costing also consider general agreements and quotes as well as return scrap, recovery and recycling. On demand, production orders and purchase orders are generated automatically.
Seleced functions:
Planning procedure: consumption-based (stochastic) or demand-driven (deterministic) via the net requirement calculation
Online planning
Flexible planning based on consumptions of past periods
Considering return scrap and recovery
Resource requirement planning according to the low-level-coding
Batch sizing (also part-specific)
Subcontractors
External service handlings (ES)
Effective inventory management as basis for purchase, planning and net requirement calculation