ORTEMS Synchronized Resource Planner (SRP)
A real-time answer to key questions:
- How to synchronize multi-level material flows?
- How to avoid creating an unsynchronized cascading sequence of plans?
- How to analyze the impact of unexpected production events or shifts in demand on the entire production process?
- What traceability between customer requests, production and supply?
For synchronization based on pull-flow planning for demand and production.
One of the major challenges of World Class Manufacturing methods is satisfying the customers while matching demand to pull flows and eliminate inventories. Moreover, the old MRPII paradigm – which adopts a strategy of building inventories without visibility of flows and with static wait times – no longer meets these new challenges. With the Synchronized Resource Planner (SRP), ORTEMS provides innovative technology to optimize the MRP process. ORTEMS SRP enables dynamic synchronization of the supply chain (from the customer request to the supplier, including synchronizing manufacturing of all the components) by integrating fluctuations in demand, production and supply. ORTEMS thus enables evolving from a "Material Requirements Planning" (MRPI&II) strategy to a "Synchronized Resource Planning" or "Flow Planning" (MRPIII) strategy, to pull-flow planning that eliminates wait times and inventory.
Synchronized Resource Planner in brief:
- Reduce inventories through multi-level synchronization of material flows
- MRP and finite capacity in a single computation loop
- Optimize flows and reduce waste
- Instantly propagate an unforeseen event over all levels of production
- Dynamic traceability from the customer to the supplier
- Improve customer service and lead time reliability
- Demand-driven manufacturing
For who?
Industry is characterized by strong international competition, resulting in complex industrial alliances or mergers through continuous consolidation. Companies in these sectors know that, to face the business challenges of their market, they must synchronize their production using demand-driven flows, optimize their resources, improve relationships with their partners, more efficiently manage business on an international scale, accelerate new product introduction and reduce the time and costs associated with equipment unavailability (reduced cycle times and lead times).
ORTEMS integrates into its solutions industry’s complex challenges, from tactical planning to detailed scheduling, enabling manufacturers to achieve operational excellence by integrating a major factor: synchronization.
Benefits:
- Up to 100% increase in the customer service rate and reliable lead times
- Up to 25% increase in productivity and reduction in production costs
- Up to 75% reduction in wait times and cycle times
- Up to 50% reduction in inventories of raw materials, semi-finished and finished goods,
- Up to 400% time savings
CALOR Groupe SEB:
- 50% reduction in obsolete inventories
- Production shutdowns and supply disruptions were reduced through better flow synchronization
SANOFI-AVENTIS:
- 20% reduction in inventories
- Increased customer responsiveness: lead time simulation in less than one hour
FAMAR:
- 90% improvement in OTIF
GIVAUDAN:
- 50% relative increase in the customer service rate
- 30% reduction in cycle times
- Significant reduction in WIP
