Abel can determine material requirement schedules for the entire plant, entire order, sub assemblies, individual purchased / manufactured parts, outside processes and actual orders. This also includes raw materials items that are sold to customers and used in the manufacturing processes.

You 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.

The features provided in Abel Production Scheduling include:

• Supports production planning
• Supports “Point and Click” rescheduling
• Supports single and multi level Bill of Materials
• Displays available capacity for each time period
• Suggests new schedule to meet new sales orders
• Forecast consumption planning including build to forecast
• Supports rough cut capacity planning by work group and work center
• Determines material requirement schedules for the entire plant, entire order, sub assemblies, individual purchased/manufactured parts, outside processes and actual orders  This also includes raw materials items that are sold to customers and used in the manufacturing processes
• Ability to alter schedules depending on short notice requirements, order cancellations, defective parts, production delays, and plant shutdowns

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