The TROPOS Scheduling module contains powerful facilities to help you balance demand against available capacity to arrive at plant and production line schedules that are cost-effective and realistic. TROPOS Scheduling works in time units appropriate to your business, down to the minute if appropriate.

TROPOS uses the tentative production schedule calculated by the Demand Management module and determines the best way in which to satisfy the demand for finished and intermediate products.
TROPOS Scheduling operates at three levels:

• Multi-plant scheduling
• Rough-cut Plant Scheduling
• Finite Scheduling of Production Lines

Multi-plant scheduling spreads the demand across multiple manufacturing plants based on plant capacity, stock levels, transport costs and times and current load. At the plant level, rough-cut scheduling can be used, either on an infinite or finite basis, to determine medium to long term capacity requirements and to plan for shutdown maintenance tasks.

At the detailed level, TROPOS Scheduling uses the Master and/or Tentative Production Schedule, applies line loading and product sequencing logic to produce a revised production schedule taking account of changing demands and current production progress. The schedule can produce work-to-lists by week, day, shift, hour or even down to the nearest minute. When linked with the material call-off processing in the Process and Materials Planning module TROPOS Scheduling removes the need for frequent Material Requirements Planning runs.

TROPOS Scheduling provides a cost-effective mechanism to ensure high customer service levels within the capacity constraints on the plant.

TROPOS Scheduling: