Digital Talk | Operational excellence starts with Planning: how?

The journey to theOperational Excellence goes through planning, the brain of the factory.

The Planning function makes it possible to check whether resources (materials and capacity) are sufficient to meet market demand, to move materials or components from suppliers to the company with the aim of ensuring customer satisfaction and efficient use of production resources.

This function has become increasingly central to companies in today''s ever-changing competitive environment where demand variability and product variety is a Key Success Factor in satisfying an increasingly diverse and demanding customer base.

• What are the objectives of the planning function?
• What are the benefits of investing in the Planning function?
• What technology tools help the Planning function?

Building on the successful experience of AUTEC SRL, a leading manufacturer of wireless control devices, Roberto Andresani, with Marco Brandalesi, will present, the set of Planning activities and tools.

Objectives achieved:

• Optimization of production capacity, better utilization of resources and thus increased productivity
• Planning and management of production capacity and thus man and machine resources
• Service level improvement
• Integration of the planning process with other business processes (product launch, management control and finance, logistics, production, sales, etc...)
• Centralization of information within the management software
• Eliminating the use of external Excel files for scheduling

We look forward to live streaming with Q&A sessions from 5:30pm to 6:30pm!