Easy to use yet powerful
ABC Planner™ is an entry level Decision Support System designed to resolve planning, scheduling or costing problems. It works on top of a world renown simulation engine, AutoMod™, an industrial caliber discrete-event simulation package that is recognized for its flexibility and speed.
ABC Planner is easy to use and does not require any technical expertise. It has been developed for users that need quick results but have little time. With minimum effort one can represent an actual work environment ( a model), and execute all company activities or operations in high speed simulation mode. This instantly enables one to foresee future results and events for all activities. Therefore, intelligent decisions can be made to achieve greater productivity at the least cost.
ABC Planner uses concepts and functionality found in AutoSched™, a full scale industrial finite capacity planning and scheduling software used by major Fortune 500 companies.
Versatile and multilingual
ABC Planner can be successfully applied, in a wide variety of environments (e.g. manufacturing, engineering, health-care, etc.).
Taking advantage of user-defined dictionaries, the specific vocabulary of a company or profession can be used in ABC Planner's menus and headers, making it extremely familiar and easy to use. Similarly, the reports can be tailored with custom headers and contents. English and French language support is built-in; other languages can easily be added.
ABC Planner can be successfully applied to solve problems in :
-Capacity planning (# of machines ; quantity of personnel...)
-Finite capacity advanced planning and scheduling (APS)
-Activity based-costing (ABC)
-Simulation of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) scenarios
-Material and components planning
-Long term forecasting
Easy data entry
Data can be entered manually on the data entry screens, downloaded from an enterprise database or received from another component of the company’s information systems (e.g. MRP, MES, SFC, etc.).
Detailed modeling
An ABC Planner model is created by entering pertinent information about the work environment. Supported modeling information includes:
-resources (machines, workers, etc.)
-waiting lines and warehouses
-work shifts and calendars
-Routings and BOM
-orders and supplies
(See table on the back for more details)
Detailed reports quickly
When the simulation engine completes a simulation run (usually within seconds or minutes) the resulting reports can be displayed, printed or exported to Excel™.
ABC Planner comes with some pre-defined charts, histograms and reports. The generated statistical reports may be enhanced using the Excel charts wizard. Reports belong to the following three categories :
-Tables of statistics for machines, departments, products, individual routing steps
-Periodical reports on station utilization (finite capacity mode) and inventory levels
-Detailed plans and activity sequence per lot, step, critical event (available as dispatch lists as well as Gantt charts,).
NB: Gantt It is an optional software for ABC Planner, MultiAXS and AutoSched
