Product Info Sheet

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ABC Planner is the newest of our planning and scheduling family of tools. It combines an easy-to-use interface with a powerful and original simulation engine built upon AutoMod. ABC Planner is oriented towards production planning and cost analysis; it combines the benefits of Activity Based Costing (ABC), Time Based Management (TBM) and simulation-based planning into one easy-to-use decision-support tool that takes into account the actual finite capacity and availability of resources, people and products.  

The following are the main features of ABC Planner:

• Multilingual interface
• Tailored headers and messages
• Modeling of production resources (machines, workplaces, operators, tooling)
• Production maintenance and break calendars
• Lot, batch, continuous and assembly production
• Detailed multi-level bill-of-material (BOM)
• Data exchange with the company databases
• Detailed performance reports (click on the image to enlarge it)
• A selection of more than 300 performance measures and statistics available
• Production schedules
• Inventory and utilization graphs
• Production cost per unit produced, machine, department...

ABC Planner is a versatile tool that can be adapted to the industry or services (banks, hospitals, etc.) and is aimed at managers willing to:

• Create short term schedules and long term production plans
• Make an estimation of cost in their supply chain
• Perform dynamic analysis of business scenarios
• Identify and estimate the needs for additional resources in the planning horizon