Kinetic Planning and Scheduling

Get the help you need with day-to-day control, long-range planning, and decision-making. The Kinetic MRP module provides manufacturers and distributors with forecasting and master production scheduling (MPS) capabilities, so you always have the full picture of your business.

Plan with confidence using cloud-based statistical forecasting that automatically selects the right forecast model for each item—our Smart Demand Planner tool accounts for trend, seasonality, and promotion/event-driven demand. For companies that manage many items like component parts, service parts, material requirements planning, or high-tech equipment, the intermittent demand model lets you accurately forecast the right amount of inventory for your desired service levels.

Built for the needs of a single site as an well as extended enterprise, Kinetic MRP is a multilevel tool providing cross-plant and cross-company planning. Enhanced to offer plant source as well as product group sourcing of materials and assemblies, Kinetic MRP automatically and visually extends the enterprise to efficiently manage supply and demand, from forecasting and MPS to MRP generation, and more.

Visually locate overload problems and slack conditions using resource views and online scheduling tools like the change impact informer. These capabilities empower master schedulers and managers to perform cost and throughput analysis on schedule changes before they are firmly committed.

Kinetic APS incorporates the strength of the Scheduling engine and enhances it with advanced functionality such as multiple constraint scheduling, a wide range of scheduling methods, visual drag-and-drop scheduling, capability and dependent capability-based scheduling, real-time capable-to-promise functionality, and advanced material planning functionality.

Not only are manufacturers and distributors looking for new tools to oversee multi-plant operations, they’re also looking to maximize the use of existing resources. Alternative production methods management helps optimize the production processes for specific parts in each plant, based on the resources available. Another optimization tool includes the transfer of material or semi-finished components to another plant for completion.