Three Manufacturing Truths

As I approach my one year anniversary with Greycon, I’m confronted with these three truths:

• Customers of manufacturers have never been more demanding. If you don’t get them what they want in the exact size and color today, someone else will. And they want to change their mind at any time with no penalty.
• These demands place enormous pressure on manufacturers.
• Manufacturing Planners are on the front lines. An organization can live and die on the ability of their planning team to connect consumer demands and manufacturing capabilities.

In the last 12 months, I have met with dozens of planners. They want to react to changes quickly so they can focus on advanced planning that drives profitability. Most are working with legacy tools that slow them down, so they spend all their time reacting.

I’m delighted to report that my Greycon customers that use opt-Studio have solved this problem.

Our platform allows Planners to model each constraint and its relationship to the system. These tools make Planners much more efficient, so they react to changes, see/evaluate the consequences instantly, and get back to important stuff. opt-Studio generates different production scenarios so that Planners can choose the option that generates the greatest benefit to their company. Reports that justify decisions are easily created for executive review.

If you want more information about what an advanced planning system can offer you, please send me a message or email me at [email protected].