JobTime^®5's new Level 5 is a true Advanced Planning and Scheduling System because it sees on-hand inventory materials, open purchase orders, and planned allocations of material to work orders or shop production lots.

The material planner's post-schedule analysis starts directly from a list of simulated future net requirements. The material planner can click on each net requirement and be immediately taken to the related orders. 

APS lets you plan production around both the constraints of capacity and material availability.  This is how APS also helps you reduce inventory even more than your best JiT and Lean Initiatives to date.  First you optimize your production plans with powerful scheduling methods.  Next, you see where additional resources or materials are actually required, so that adding quantity prevents stock-outs and production delays.  But the detailed schedule of inventory levels event-by-event also shows you precisely where excess material is building up and can be reduced. This information helps you synchronize your purchasing and manufacturing plans to create purchasing and production schedules that closely fit your demand over time, while still honoring all safety stock requirements. Material usage over time is tailored to your needs, thereby reducing average inventories that you need to keep on hand.  APS supports the supply chain, because it can see customer forecasts and vendor deliveries. JobTime's APS features synchronize both material and capacity constraints over a long-term planning horizon.   You can input forecast demand and/or planned orders from either ERP or a customized version of our JobPlan module to generate work loads of 12 to 18 months into the future.

Planners can rapidly adjust planned make and buy orders, and then immediately test the consequence of their planning strategies without impacting data in the ERP system. Each net requirement is solved case-by-case, and confirmed using JobTime^®5 rapid rescheduling technology.  When the joint set of net requirements is resolved as desired, the combination of suggested order changes can be printed, emailed or optionally exported back into ERP for implementation.