Value Stream Manager   Manufacturing planning with lean production and constraints management techniques

VSM is one of the most innovative production planning and scheduling system. This powerful technology provides manufacturers with complete decision-making support for production planning and scheduling including production capacity, commodities and other input materials stock by levering on a CTP (capable-to-promise) customers delivery logic. Inspired by a new optimization methodology, VSM embeds unique and robust algorithms while following innovative lean production and constraints management techniques.

Its scheduling engine weighs in capacity and materials needs contraints at the same time while executing backward and forward schedules to originate production and provision plans. Differently from batch systems, VSM works real-time 24/24h in synch with your supply chain running on a Web platform.

Usage model

Order promising
Value Stream Manager helps you to negotiate the best delivery conditions while customers place their orders. VSM spots the most reliable delivery date/time (Capable-to-Promise - CTP) by comparing customer requests with capacity and input contraints in real time.

Replenishment
Keep your priorities under control while meeting excellent delivery performance! VSM generates the right replenishment orders amid designed/target inventory levels. By integrating pulling calls ("kaban") into the scheduling process, VSM drives your priorities while putting optimal deliveries through.

Planning and scheduling
VSM generates real-time, consistent and realistic plans. These come out from a combination of productive capacity and input materials tests and they are hedged from the manufacturing environment variability through an accurate buffer system. The output schedules are used to spot a balanced resources' deployment. Materials stock level and their flows are kept under control to manage the manufacturing production.

Provisions
Schedules and customers' orders are synchronized by Value Stream Manager. Buyers use VSM-generated proposals to create buying orders and eventually to share these with suppliers.

Execution
Value Stream Manager matches schedules with shop-floor execution while aligning all resources to priorities. Weighing in production plans advancements, pulling calls ("kaban") and input material stock levels, Value Stream Manager spots new priorities as opportunities dictate.

Main features and add-on components

Easy to use

VSM's GUI and functionalities are designed for a quick learning and ease of use (e.g., selected colours and intuitive signals help users to monitor orders and input materials stock levels). Whether they come from customers or do fuel stockpiles, orders come out in synch with input materials stock levels along production phases requirements by levering on Value Stream Network: an effective system capable to monitor the whole factory and the alignment of its resources.

Interfaced with ERP
VSM can be linked to ERPs data and systems to generate execution schedules of provision/production plans.

Web-based system

Users rely on commercial browsers to explore and get through the sessions: there are not hidden costs, additional licences are not required! Value Stream Manager relies on JavaEE technology; with incredible ease, users can export VSM data to MS Office packages.
VSM integration to BEFORE!: ACT Solutions forecasting engine

Design simplicity
Everything is kept really simple (e.g., data structure, GUI building, parameters, on-line factory visibility, access control, network suppliers visibility) and hedging and accuracy results are much stronger than commercial APSs.

Vertical markets

• Manufacturing

ACT Solutions technology integration and scalability

• developed through Java technology
  
• integrates with any SQL database compliant
  
• integrates with ERP
  
• a very powerful engine designed for parallel calculus
  
• scalable for a number of CPUs.

About
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