Visual Management
Asprova enables visual management by displaying the results of scheduling graphically on the screen in the form of a Gantt chart. You can see at a glance the schedule stretching from the current state of the shop floor to several months in the future, making possible quick and accurate delivery date quotations. Furthermore, by monitoring the future schedule, you can take necessary measures ahead of time to prevent late deliveries. Visually identifying bottleneck resources also enables you to increase overall throughput, while monitoring the load on equipment enables you to improve the efficiency of your capital investments by determining the optimal plan for increasing production capacity.
Inventory Reduction
Inventory reduction of work-in-process inventory is achieved naturally when production lead times are shortened. Asprova can further reduce inventory levels of finished items and bulk-produced parts by performing pegging between sales orders and manufacturing orders. In the case that an inventory shortage appears in the schedule, Asprova can automatically replenish the inventory by generating manufacturing orders according to the lot sizing rules you specify, while continuing to minimize finished item and work-in-progress item inventory levels.
Easy Data Maintenance
Do you know what the most labor consuming work in implementing a production scheduler is? Data entry and maintenance. Asprova helps you minimize the labor of data entry and confirmation, however, by providing rich features for facilitating data maintenance such as Excel-like table views for easy data entry, search and replace features for locating necessary data within large data sets, and various display features for reducing mistakes.
