TOPS/PLANNER

A GUI based graphic planning tool for apparel manufacturers exclusively for the sewing operation. It assists the user by providing visual means of allocating and scheduling production orders. The PLANNER benefits the user to quickly react to customer demands and meeting their tight delivery schedules. In short, TOPS/PLANNER ensures your capacity to be optimised across all production lines in real time.

TOPS/PLANNER calculates factory production capacity on the SMV of the style, line capacity, efficiency % of the line, absentism % in the line, learning curve and calendar. The PLANNER can be used alongside TOPS/ERP or separately to integrate with your own ERP system.

Features

• Online Planning Capabilities with Drag and Drop
• Select orders that need to be uploaded onto planning
• Board for scheduling production.
• Graphic Display with use of colour highlighting
• Easy integration with ERP systems
• Finite capacity planning capabilities

Planning Board functions

Capacity
Any number of factories and production lines can be defined. Number of Production lines within Factory, Number of operators or machines at the production line level or to a perticular order style can also be defined.

Order
Defines a particular style for production and its specific delivery dates. An order can be split and distributed to one or more factories or lines.

Drag and Drop
Orders can be loaded on to a particular line by dragging a strip with the help of the mouse. Each order can be split into multiple lines.

Startup Allowance or Learning Curve
Efficiency levels can be defined by the user. TOPS/ PLANNER will calculate the daily production based on efficiency levels. Every product manufactured can have a different learning curve.

Parameters
From the parameters defined, the system automatically provides accurate time periods for a given quantity, or shows the maximum quantity possible for a given date, based on available capacity.

Plan vs Actual
A comparison between Plan Vs Actuals can be made for a given order.

Flexible Calendar
Any number of calendars may be defined so that calendar can be applied to the specific factory or production line

Minimum System Requirement Hardware:
Celeron, PII, PIII with 256 MB RAM 1 GB Free hard disk space.
Celeron, PII, PIII with 128 MB RAM 1 GB Free hard disk space.

Database: Sybase SQL Anywhere 7.0.3 or later.

Software OS: Windows XP