You can schedule plant, machinery and labor against each Job or Sub-Job so that you are able to effectively match and utilize your business capacity.  You are able to identify when you will have the capacity to meet a customer’s order, or if you will need to increase capacity, overtime, or the number of shifts, to contract work out or acquire additional facilities.

The features provided in Abel Scheduling and Capacity Planning include:

• Schedule plant, machinery and labour against each Job or Sub-Job to enable you to effectively match and utilise your business capacity
• Determine material requirement schedules for the entire plant, each Job, Sub Job, individual purchased / manufactured parts, outside processes and actual orders.  This also includes raw materials that are sold to customers and used in the Job or Sub-Job processes
• Have the flexibility to alter schedules to take into account events such as short notice requirements, order cancellations, defective parts, production delays, and plant shutdowns
• Identify when you will have the capacity to meet a customer’s order or if you need to increase capacity, increase overtime, increase the number of shifts, contract work out or acquire additional facilities
• Provide your customers with accurate completion dates for their Jobs