The Road to Planning Automation
If you don't get your planning right then your competition will be ahead.
Planning is the core of your company's operations and, if you are going to incorporate automation into your planning process, then you need a good visual representation of what is going to happen with a plan, see what is actually happening with the plan and then be able to react dynamically with changes in that plan.
First, if you have a manual Whiteboard or computer allocation screen replace the present planning system with a high tech whiteboard screen (PC or Interactive Whiteboard) with drag & drop allocation (see transport planning below).
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Once you have your high tech whiteboard screen in place you have the hub of operations.
Integrating Routing, Optimisation, Tracking, Mobile Working, EDI or Customer Interfaces, Job input, Web input, Scanning, Stock, Warehousing, CRM etc., into your planning process will allow the system to automatically make business decisions and allow time to deal with exceptions and improve customer relations.
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