Implementing Real-time Scheduling System for a Precision Engineering Company in Singapore

Abstract

A good Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system APS helps to improve the order fulfilment process by providing real-time delivery commitment to customer order. However, the implementation of which can be difficult as it involves a great deal of business process improvement effort, which may involve some cleaning up of existing data, evaluation of the current work order tracking practices, re-evaluating bills of material and more. Such processes must take into account operational scenarios that are difficult to model and capture in a theoretical research paper, but are key to implementing an APS system. This paper deals with the challenges of real-world operational challenges of implementing an APS system and the software features, business improvements and operational workflow changes required to overcome these challenges for productivity gain.