Make-to-Order Package

The make to order package extends the 24Flow functionality in 2 domains:

1. It adds a number of out-of-the-box scheduling options, both on the production order and the operation level.

2. It adds capacity calculations both for teams and equipment.

In order to accomplish this, the Make-to-Order package adds the following components:

• It extends the Production Order data model with a number of new fields.

• It contains a set of Flows actions that trigger the (re)computation of a production schedule and capacity.

• It introduces a set of metadata that allow you to tune the behaviour to your specific needs.

• It contains logic, code and batch classes to compute the schedules and capacities.

The 24Flow Make-to-Order package enables a number of use cases, a non-exhaustive list:

• Automatically enable backward scheduling of production orders based on the delivery date, whenever new orders are synced from the ERP system.

• Extend the duration (=lead time) of the order when it overlaps with non-working time such as pauses, holidays or weekends.

• Automatically recalculate the production order schedule via forward scheduling when the start date of the production order is changed.

• Automatically recalculate the production order schedule via backward scheduling when the end date of the production order is changed.

• Plan based on bottleneck operations and apply backward and forward scheduling for respectively previous and subsequent operations.

• Define your own logic for automatically scheduling bottleneck operations, based on characteristics of the order e.g. priority, product type, etc. This allows you to group orders of a similar nature.

• Automatically compute the impact on capacity of various scheduling decisions. Capacity can be defined either at the team or the machine level, depending on your specific setup.