The Real Cost of Not Being Able to Schedule: Planning as a Business Decision
Most manufacturers think of scheduling as a shop-floor challenge. In reality, the ability—or inability—to effectively plan and schedule has an impact across the entire business.
Poor planning can drive up inventory and WIP, create constant expediting and firefighting, make accurate quoting and forecasting difficult, hide true capacity and costs, and ultimately slow cash flow and erode profitability.
In this practical webinar, Frederick Gertz, Founder and CEO of Collide Technology, will look beyond the daily scheduling headaches to show how planning and scheduling influence both operational performance and business results.
Fred will also get down to the brass tacks of what manufacturers can do now. Attendees will learn how to establish a baseline, identify a few meaningful metrics, recognize where the biggest gaps exist between the plan and reality, and begin improving scheduling—even without investing in new software.
What You’ll Learn
- Why planning and scheduling affect production, inventory, quoting, pricing, capacity, cash flow, and profitability
- How better planning can support more informed decisions about capacity, capability, quoting, and which work to pursue
- Practical steps you can begin taking on the shop floor right away
- Which scheduling and operational metrics to start measuring—and how to build from basic to more advanced measures
- How manufacturers can begin manually and determine when tools such as MES, MRP, and APS make sense
- How optimization, operations research, and AI can support more advanced planning and scheduling
Whether you operate a flow line, job shop, mixed-mode operation, or manage maintenance and logistics scheduling, this session will provide practical ideas you can take back to your operation.