PMP - PLANNING

« The perfect tool to en-

sure that your forecasts

are always achieved on

the mill floor »

Planning gives you:

Production order

Sawing

Drying

Planing

Inventory forecasts

Business strategies

Budgets

Inventroy levels reflect your planning

Planning: Your Future PMP Planning lets you explore the future in an optimized, automated and simpli-

fied manner, which facilitates decision-making. PMP Planning prepares your pro-

duction plans according to:

• raw material availability and properties

• equipment and production line operation • market conditions

Main benefits of planning The offering from PMP Solutions provides the following benefits:

1 : Optimizing equipment uptime

2 : Controlling inventory levels

3 : Satisfying customer commitments (delivery)

Announcing October 2014

Planning is everyone’s business Planning is the activity that unifies all the

decisions made in the plant. This requires

close collaboration and coordination by

management, sales teams and produc-

tion .

PMP Planning’s software tools have been

developed bearing in mind the role and

abilities of each stakeholder in the plant: the

operator, supervisor, Director, salespeople,

financial controller, owner and share-

holders.

The planner’s role The planner must be able to pass on

the company’s business vision to the

plant floor. PMP Planning provides all

the tools to translate the master plan

resulting from the corporate budget

into production orders for each de-

partment, making changes as needed

when unexpected events occur on the

mill floor.

Operational planning and production orders

Users of software tools

Strategic and operational planning When strategies are reflected in terms of years or months, planning if closely re-

lated to the choice of products to manufacture, purchases of raw materials and

investments in new equipment. On the other hand, planning must also respond to

more operational considerations such as orders, stock levels, use of equipment,

etc. To meet all of these needs PMP Planning offers the following intelligent tools:

Production order (daily plan)

For the entire plant, it’s worthwhile to coordinate the sawing, drying and planing

activities to issue an operational plan that’s in line with the company’s strategic

plan. The results are presented in a Gantt chart (see example above) which lets

work orders be issued to the loaders and the managers for each department.

Stock level tracking (weeks/

months)

Analyze your operations in terms of variations

encountered during the production weeks:

changes in demand, prices, inventory levels,

production rates, etc.

Business decisions (months/years)

What happens if: supply changes, productivity of part of the plant increases, a

section is added, etc.; all these “what if” scenarios need in-depth analysis but they

offer particularly great potential for boosting the plant’s profitability.

Simplified

initial setup

Within a month, you will be plan-ning accurately, considering all the actual varia-tions seen in your markets

and production

Visualize your inventories into the future resulting from planning

Coordinate your activities with the ability to present the results of your planning with

future inventories and tools to explore different scenarios

Coordinate your planning activities

All players collaborate in achieving the company’s business objectives

• The sales department analyzes trends and market prices and announces opportunities to be captured over a given period, which can be measured in months

• Purchasing managers confirm the availability of raw materials as well as anticipated changes in key properties

The production department together with this data announces potential constraints arising from equipment capacity limitations.

It all ends with activities being coordinated with the support of PMP Plan-ning software providing optimal and realistic scenarios. The result is opera-tional plans that will be followed by plant personnel.

Get unprecedented results from your management and production staff

Contact us

Don’t hesitate to call us

for more information on

our products and services

François Léger

319 rue Franquet

Québec, Qc, Canada

G1P 4R4

(418) 659-2647 x 3302

Francois.leger@pmpsolutions.ca

Presentation of PMP Solutions

PMP Solutions innovates to automatically collect manufacturing data, institute

performance rigour and enable its customers to delivery quality products

while reducing their operating costs.

PMP Solutions offers an approach which encompasses production planning,

production orders, performance monitoring, performance analysis, up to cor-

porate reporting as well as traceability of processed products.

PMP Solutions Solutions relies on proven methods to ensure integration with

the other information systems in the plant and for managing the progress of

projects and deliveries, and for change management.

PMP Solutions draws on more than eight years in software development in

the wood industry with the participation of several industrial companies, origi-

nal equipment manufacturers, FPInnovations and the Forac university

research centre.

We are here for you

PMP Solutions

has been recognized as a partner for

the success of Maibec which received

the distinction of the top 100 most

innovative companies in America by

the

Progressive Manufacturing

Award

for its project of implementation of a

MES