Defense
Agile project and production planning in the defense sector
Military facilities are facing growing challenges, which are becoming more apparent due to increasing demand. Equipment orders are characterized by extremely long project terms, complex supply chains, and long product life cycles with maintenance contracts. Orders are often very customer-specific with corresponding development effort (engineer-to-order).
Increase the efficiency of defense projects with the advanced planning & scheduling (APS) software wayRTS
Project and production planning in the defense sector is often characterized by great complexity and susceptibility to error. In the case of large-scale orders, feasibility tests for quotations with regard to capacity and scheduling are already a challenge. There are few valid decision-making bases for make-or-buy decisions. Limited or very specific materials make resource management difficult. Coordination with numerous suppliers and partners requires precise logistics and comprehensive supply chain management. Growing parts lists and complex supply chains are difficult to understand. Separate planning systems for different areas require frequent manual adjustments and corrections.
Challenges facing the industry as well as planning & scheduling:
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Current situation & services
– Sharp increase in demand
– Extremely long project lead times and throughput times
– Long product life cycles: Products need to be supported and maintained for decades
– Complex order networks with a high level of production depth (engineer-to-order)
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Complex supply chains
– Coordination with numerous suppliers and partners requires precise logistics
– integration of customer and supplier would be desirable
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Integrated project and production planning is required
– Many armament projects are large and complex, with long time horizons
– No valid decision-making basis for make-or-buy
– Feasibility check for quotations with regard to capacity and scheduling for large orders
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Resource management and Capacity planning
– The efficient use of resources is critical, especially for limited or specialized materials
– The ability to accurately plan and adjust production capacities is critical
– Long lead times for capacity expansion
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Data & Planning
– Great manual planning effort
– Master data quality (master data is missing for new buildings and new project requests)
– No integrated system for planning (separate tools for project planning, MRP, and detailed planning)
– Growing parts lists
– Cost tracking in projects
Before costs get out of hand and you miss your delivery dates:
Check whether the planning processes and software systems are suitable for your requirements.
Companies in the defense sector should ask these questions:
Companies with armaments contracts benefit from waySuite's support for their planning processes
The high-performance real time APS software wayRTS (Real Time Simulation) helps companies with production planning and control across all value creation stages. With wayRTS, planning becomes agile. The combination of up-to-date information coupled with real-time planning from wayRTS enables users to react quickly and flexibly to changing planning situations. To this end, they have the support of efficient planning co-pilots.
The multi-project management software wayPRO is another waySuite module that supports the management of complex jobs with a long runtime.
waySuite provides an integrated planning approach for project and production planning. The software suite provides comprehensive scheduling and capacity planning, allowing planners to respond to changes in real time, which significantly increases planning security. Here, all planning horizons (quotation planning on through to detailed planning) are realized with a data model in a software suite without system breaks.
By simulating scenarios, valantic’s waySuite is not only invaluable in quotation planning, but also helps when plans need to be changed. Machine failure, a wave of illness or a missed delivery – you can use the wayRTS co-pilots to calculate various problem-solving approaches. The comparison of different scheduling and cost scenarios becomes a sound basis for strategic and operational make-or-buy decisions. Real-time visualization of all necessary information facilitates decision making.
A planning process that uses the possibilities of waySuite is transparent. It is characterized by continuous optimization, increases efficiency, reduces downtime, and therefore reduces costs. There is a company-wide planning image that gives you the security of being able to meet delivery deadlines.
Planning with waySuite has the following advantages
For supply chain management, production planning & production scheduling
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Risk Management:
Early identification of bottlenecks and potential supply chain problems
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Collaboration:
Improve cooperation between operational procurement, service providers, and suppliers
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Improve efficiency
Improve efficiency and increase your organization’s throughput through optimized planning
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Integrated project and production approach
We increase your planning security thanks to the integrated approach of project & production and the use of efficient co-pilots for capacitive and scheduling planning as well as the simulation of short-term planning changes (machine failure, order does not arrive) and quotation planning.
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Real-time synchronization
By constantly synchronizing over the entire process chain with the help of the real-time MRP, including up-to-date information, you shorten throughput time.
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Increase in adherence to delivery dates
Increased on-time delivery through continuous work on the critical path as well as feasible capacity planning across all stages by prioritizing orders according to the situation
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Real-time visualization
Real-time visualization of all information necessary for decision-making
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Make-or-buy decisions
A sound basis for strategic and operational make-or-buy decisions by comparing different scheduling and cost scenarios
Requirements for advanced planning and scheduling (APS) software
End-to-end and fully integrated planning via the project, rough, and detailed planning levels, including personnel deployment planning and quotation planning
Integration: Seamless connection to other systems, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), project system, and MDE
Real-time data processing: Respond quickly to changes in production and supply chain
Security: Highest data security standards to protect sensitive information
User-friendliness: Simple operation despite the complexity of the functions
Ability to simulate different scenarios/quotations
Real-time visualization and control tower
Co-pilot: Decision template for complex situations
