Supply chain planning solutions company Logility has announced an expansion to its Manufacturing Optimization solution, enhancing its advanced scheduling capabilities with features like Synchronous Scheduling and Flexible Scripts. Tailored to boost production efficiencies across various industries, such as consumer goods, food and beverages, and industrial durables, these capabilities offer a highly adaptable solution to diverse scheduling requirements.
“Our clients rely on highly sophisticated manufacturing processes, so we deliver equally sophisticated capabilities to accurately model those processes without lengthening implementation time or compromising solution performance. With these market-leading capabilities we help ensure the highest utilization possible of equipment and resources,” said Kevin McInturff, CTO, Logility.
Addressing key manufacturing challenges
The introduction of the Synchronous Scheduling feature addresses a critical manufacturing challenge by enabling simultaneous scheduling of multiple items on the same production resource with identical start and end times. This proves particularly valuable in industries like food and industrial durables, such as baking, curing, or drying processes, where the need to process various items concurrently is essential.
Deployed across numerous manufacturing environments, The Logility Digital Supply Chain Platform harnesses the power of Industry 4.0 technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automation. The incorporation of Flexible Scripts enables clients to swiftly incorporate real-world constraints into their manufacturing environments, providing the flexibility to configure scheduling constraints and goals for each manufacturing resource within a plant through low-code development using Python.
As a pivotal component of the Logility Digital Supply Chain Platform, Manufacturing Optimization stands out for its ability to cater to the intricacies of complex and unique production environments. Equipped with advanced scheduling algorithms, the solution navigates factors like resource availability, demand, and constraints to generate optimal production schedules. Its configurability ensures alignment with the specific needs of each organization, encompassing the types of products, production processes, and available resources.
Real-time visibility into production schedules is a key feature, enabling users to swiftly identify and address potential issues. Collaboration tools integrated into the solution streamline teamwork in creating and refining production schedules.
