wayRTS - production planning and scheduling

Transparency in the supply chain

The high-performance realtime APS (advanced planning & scheduling) software wayRTS (Real Time Simulation) assists companies with production planning and control of all value-creation levels. With wayRTS, planning becomes transparent, which allows users to make simple interventions with automatic planning support.

The modeling of production processes and seamless integration and synchronization of other value-creating processes such as in the pre-production phase (design, planning, work preparation) are possible thanks to the flexible, main memory-based data structure of wayRTS. And all this in real time.

The same data structure is used for rough and fine planning, which means that breaks between different planning levels are a thing of the past. This is how wayRTS creates the ideal prerequisite for exploiting business potential in the supply chain: great adherence to schedules and productivity with market-appropriate throughput times and optimal inventories.

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wayRTS product flyer: Transparency in the supply chain

High adherence to delivery dates and productivity with optimized throughput times and inventories:
fast, on schedule and profitable with the wayRTS APS software.

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Functional Properties and Technical Flow

In-memory data storage enables the excellent planning performance of wayRTS in real time, even with very large volumes of data as occur in large production, especially with multi-plant processes. The efficiency of your planning team will increase substantially with wayRTS.

With the unique linking of any degree of automation, modern visualization, and interactive real-time planning, wayRTS enables production planning according to the whitebox-APS approach : Here the concern is the linking of optimization algorithms to the planner’s knowledge gained from experience, the transparent display of the optimization result, and interactive interventions of the planner in case of critical planning situation. Here, anything is possible, from automated optimization to visual-interactive planning. Regardless of the individual degree of automation, the planning and control work can be reduced in every case.

The functional advantages and basic technologies of wayRTS as APS 4.0 already meet today’s requirements, which companies will encounter again and again on the way top Industrie 4.0.

Planning with real-time processing and scenario technology
Planning support can be automated at will
In-memory technology for quick data access via the main memory
Optimization with real-time synchronization
Visual, interactive planning tools

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Case Study

Grenzebach plans and controls supply chain processes with valantic’s waySuite

Grenzebach serves the global markets of the glass and construction materials industries as well as interlogistics with custom-tailored automation solutions. Together with valantic, the company implemented a location and function-spanning planning solution for networked control of all value-creation processes.

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Case Study

Multi-plant planning with waySuite at BBC Cellpack Technology AG

Supported by valantic's Supply Chain Excellence team, BBC Cellpack Technology has optimized its logistics and value creation processes. New, transparent multi-plant planning facilitates the handling of stock transfer orders, optimizes stocks, and increases delivery reliability. The technological basis for this is waySuite for Sales & Operations Planning.

Case Study

HOHNER and SONOR optimize Supply Chain Management with wayRTS

The musical instrument manufacturers Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH and Sonor GmbH commissioned valantic with the introduction of the Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solution wayRTS (Real Time Simulation). Both of these longtime manufacturers of harmonicas, percussion instruments, and Orff instruments now have much more agile, cross-plant demand and production planning with maximum transparency along the entire value-creation chain.

Your Benefits for the Processes

Increase of on-time-delivery

Reduction of work for planning and control

Increased productivity

Shorter throughput times

Optimization of inventories

wayRTS Simplifies Planning & Control

While the degree of automation lies in your hands.

Maximum transparency in the supply chain cockpit

With the supply chain cockpit, the planner can ascertain the planning situation at a glance and – across several aggregation levels – analyze it down to the smallest detail. Individually-parameterizable alert functions direct your view to the essential. In addition to logistical variables, value and cost points of view are also evaluated in the planning.

Transparency in planning and control

Starting from need-based provision of services, wayRTS offers complete transparency with a view to the entire order network thanks to state-of-the-art visualization and filter possibilities. Of course the reference to the customer order is retained at all times.
Thanks to the excellent graphic preparation and context-sensitive scaling, the planner can always keep an eye on essential information. This includes flexible and individually-configurable views and dynamic filter functions (for example, with respect to the critical path).

Visual and interactive planning

The visualization functions provide the basis for interactive planning, with which capacities, orders, and throughput times can be adjusted with drag and drop. With the real-time capability of wayRTS, the effect of the interventions is visible immediately across all production levels and easy to trace.

Any degree of automation

All planning steps can be automated with wayRTS – depending on your company’s requirements. From automatic synchronization of order networks to the automatic availability check for new customer orders with ATP (Available-to-Promise) and CTP (Capable-to-Promise) in real time, on through to a comprehensive optimization of the entire stock of orders with respect to capacities, inventories, and dates: Nothing is left out of consideration here.

Scenario technology

Planning is complex. The scenario technology in wayRTS allows what-if examinations with direct comparison of planning alternatives and simulation of the best possible solutions. If the result is satisfactory, it can be taken over into operative planning with the touch of a button. With the wayRTS scenarios, a feasibility check of the sales planning can also be performed by simulating different market developments and comparing them. This is frequently very useful with respect to capacity and material requirements, for example.

Quality standard of the APS software wayRTS

wayRTS was developed according to internationally-recognized quality standards (GAMP4). In addition to the technology, we make the appropriate services available to you: Our experts will introduce this standard APS software as a validated system.

Automation and optimization of regular tasks with wayOPT

With the wayRTS add-on wayOPT (Link wayOPT) we offer you a platform for the automation and optimization of standard tasks in production planning. Efficient and high-capacity algorithms assist you with the daily planning work and make your routine work easier. This is how you can create more free space to clarify special planning situations. In addition to basic functions, wayOPT offers you possibilities for individual expansions, so that the functionality can be tailored as closely as possible to your planning needs in order to achieve best-fit planning. This way, you can exploit potential for improvement with respect to throughput times for orders, inventories, and planning work.

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Project planning with wayPRO

If different projects access the same resources, wayPRO reveals dependencies and identifies scheduling and capacity conflicts.

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KPI management with wayKPI

With the business intelligence tool wayKPI, companies get an overview of their supply chain’s performance with company-specific KPIs.

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Workforce management with wayWFM

The right allocation of resources and capacities determines success. Employees are important, special resources. With the workforce management tool wayWFM, companies can plan the deployment of their personnel efficiently.

Supply chain communication with wayCOM

With wayCOM, it is possible to control within a company which information flows to which departments and how the documentation should be handled. For individual business events, automatic measures can be specified, which prevents errors in the operational information flow.

Forecasts and Dispo Data Maintenance with wayDDO

The software module wayDDO (Demand & Dispo Optimization) forecasts future demand and automates dispo data management.

Your Contact

Andreas Wagner-Manslau

Partner
valantic Supply Chain Excellence

+49 89 57 83 99 114