Orchestrate Features

Functionality Includes :

Optimisation on a range of business objectives
Orders
Order Due Date
Order Release Date
SKUs (products)
Bill of Materials
Shift Patterns
Finite Capacity Work Centres
Infinite Capacity Work Centres (eg for subcontract)
Work In Progress
Order Pegging
Planned Maintenance
Set Up Matrices ( eg from white to black takes 5 mins, black to white takes 5 hours)
Process Routes
Forward / Backward Scheduling
Task dependencies
A “work to list” report
Workforce Skill levels
Orders per time period (month, week, day)
Manufacturing capacity
Transportation cost
Manufacturing cost
Customer location
Stock profiles
Manufacturing capability ( ie which factories / production lines can make particular products)

Orchestrate Data Formats

Orchestrate can accept data from files in the following formats

Microsoft Excel (*.xls)
Microsoft Access Database (*.mdb)
Comma Separated Values (*. csv)
Text Files (*.txt, *. tab, *.asc, *.prn)

Most ERP systems can output to a flat file with a comma separation between data fields. This is a csv file and can be read by Orchestrate.

Orchestrate can also write files to any of the above formats. Orchestrate can also output its reports to html format so that the user can review the report on a web browser or on a company intranet.

Case Studies

Using Orchestrate