ABC Planner™

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Software Description

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
  • 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