Optimize resource utilization across the enterprise for better business performance.
Master the art of predicting and responding quickly to changes in customer demand with minimal business interruption. Whether you are a global, multi-site enterprise or a single-site manufacturer or distributor, precise and flexible planning and scheduling is imperative for performance-driven, profitable operations. Epicor offers a comprehensive solution for helping with forecasting, material requirements planning (MRP), and advanced planning and scheduling to meet the needs of today’s agile businesses.
Benefits
Respond quickly to customer needs with tools that forecast accuracy for finished products and components, including demand planning and intermittent demand.
Optimize planning schedules with advanced capabilities in skill-based schedules for both workers and equipment. Multilevel MRP drives end assemblies and component requirements, ensuring that customer demand inputs drive the schedule.
Optimize output and improve customer service by leveraging capacity across your entire extended enterprise. Kinetic delivers multi-site capabilities and operational visibility, including plant-based methods for optimal use.
Essential Features
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.
