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- Advanced Planning System - Carp Systems International Inc.
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- KEYWORDS: inventory control, materials management, capacity planning, decision support, Manufacturing
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- Manufacturing Requirements (Resource) Planning
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- The Advanced Planning System provides a suite of strategic, decision-support
- manufacturing planning applications and tools, which dramatically extend the
- efficiency and planning analysis capabilities of MRP II (manufacturing
- resource planning) Systems.
- The Advanced Planning System operates on a workstation, acting as a client to
- the host-based MRP II system. The system can be integrated with any
- commercially available MRP II system, such as ASK Computer System's ManMan as
- well as any in-house developed system.
- The Advanced Planning System extracts the key manufacturing planning
- information-- the master production schedule (MPS) and the materials and
- capacity requirements planning (MRP and CRP)-- from the host-based MRP II
- application. The system can then generate numerous full-scale MRP runs in
- seconds on the workstation; a process that normally takes hours on the
- host-based system. With each run, the master planner can apply different
- Advanced Planning Applications, such as Engineering Change Analysis or
- Schedule Changes, or create a new application with different "What If"
- criteria. The result is an ability to generate multiple manufacturing plans
- instantaneously and then select the one that best meets an organization's
- strategic needs.
- The Advanced Planning System has three components: an APS Planning Engine,
- Advanced Planning Tools, and Advanced Planning Applications. It allows
- companies to execute multiple full-scale MRP runs in seconds, a process that
- typically takes hour with existing MRP II systems.
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- Carp Systems International Inc.
- Fax: (613) 592-0584
- James T. Manion
- President
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