Software-Supported Food Production Planning with GANTTPLAN APS
Flexible, Real-Time Production Scheduling to Ensure Delivery Readiness
Planning Challenges in Food Production:
Growing complexity due to a wider product range, smaller batch sizes, and country-specific market demands.
Manual planning processes require extensive coordination across plants, products, and customer priorities.
Managing multi-stage workflows from raw material sourcing to premix production, final products, packaging, and distribution.
Batch management and shelf-life constraints that must be considered in feasible, restriction-aware planning & scheduling.
Lack of real-time shopfloor feedback to the scheduling at order level.
Limited visibility into inventory levels and locations for raw materials, packaging, and auxiliary supplies.
Automatic Order Scheduling & Multi-Resource Planning
with GANTTPLAN APS :
With GANTTPLAN APS, you can plan your production based on available resources and capacities, along with custom planning parameters and target criteria. It considers both scheduling and cost factors, displaying results transparently in the graphical control center. The interactive tool also allows for automatic or manual rescheduling at any time.
With GANTTPLAN PP-DS, You Can Achieve Up To
25%
Cost Savings
30%
Efficiency Increase
50%
Time Savings
100%
Transparency
Smarter Food Production Planning starts with GANTTPLAN APS
Your Key Benefits:
Reduce planner workload
and allow focus on major and strategic tasks.
Automate planning & scheduling
while respecting all constraints, with the flexibility to manually adjust and release orders via the graphical control center.
Simulate and adapt production plans
based on rolling sales forecasts and demand fluctuations.
Gain insights into plant utilization
across daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly views.
Support both make-to-stock and make-to-order strategies
to serve diverse sales channels.
Integrate workforce and shift planning
as constraints to optimize personnel deployment.
Why GANTTPLAN APS is Ideal
for Food Production:
Handles specific food production constraints
related to mechanical, thermal, biological, and chemical processes.
Considers varying best-before dates
for raw materials, intermediates, and finished goods across all production stages.
Visualizes inventory
status, movements, forecasts, storage locations, and item conditions (e.g., locked, expired, critical shelf life).
Enables end-to-end bottleneck management for intermediates
(e.g., base materials, blends, premixes), factoring in setup times, storage, and shrinkage.
Smooths capacity during seasonal peaks,
considering shelf life and temperature-sensitive storage, and supports pre-production planning.
Demand-based scheduling & availability check
of packaging materials & raw materials based on contractual quantity call-offs.
Considers plant restrictions
for machine-specific dependencies in processes like forming, winding, or packaging.
Supports batch size and sequence planning
with setup/cleaning matrices, minimum/maximum batch sizes, block planning, maintenance, and online/offline system use.
Comments from the DUALIS Project Team:
Heike Wilson
Managing Director, DUALIS GmbH IT Solution
