The performance of a company depends both on its expertise and its managerial and organizational effectiveness. Production management is an important part of the process for print suppliers. The organization relies in general on the implementation of a certain number of basic functions, among which the scheduling function plays an essential role.

The E Pro Production Scheduling module is a graphical production scheduling system incorporating key event/progress indicators across the print production floor. The software utilizes pattern recognition to programmatically create production scheduling opportunities which might not be apparent without this view into the data. The configurable capacity planning software can help your scheduling department organize workloads based on custom manufacturing and business constraints. Some examples of common constraints include:

• Equipment availability
• Promise Dates
• Production rates
• Labour
• Product characteristics
• Product equipment relationships
• Raw material availability
• Inventory levels
• External indexes
• Process steps
• WIP
• Changeover costs

• Real time Scheduling with SFDC connection, schedule is always up-to-date and visible to entire plant
• Tracking of significant job events (paper, data, inserts, plates, etc) with real-time colour indications to warn of scheduling issues
• Valuation of the scheduling board for sales and cost forecasting, and business planning
• Greater visibility of the changing load across presses would allow better opportunistic maintenance to take place, improving the overall machine reliability and number of jobs to be accommodated
• Linked with the Estimating application the Scheduling system has an instant ability to calculate true cost of production for different scenarios

In addition to the main application, the following related modules are available:

• SFDC - allowing E Pro to record the ‘actual’ time taken of a particular task for job costing purposes
• Inventory Management - presenting the physical stock situation in each location. Also functioning to facilitate user to create purchase orders for stock