JDA Software - The Supply Chain Company

JDA Factory Planner

As demand changes, shop-floor dynamics — including resource status and material availability — can shift dramatically, impacting production plans and schedules. JDA Factory Planner provides intelligent decision support for production planning and scheduling across a single facility, multiple plants, departments, work cells or production lines.

How does it solve your business challenges?

By using JDA Factory Planner, you can avoid making costly trade-offs between customer commitments and key financial objectives. JDA Factory Planner streamlines and aligns the activities of your production control, manufacturing and procurement teams by automating mundane tasks and shifting the focus to critical issues that may impact key service, operational and financial targets.

What are the benefits?

  • Repeatable production planning processes that improve efficiency
  • Reduced cycle times, inventory levels and customer response times
  • Improved throughput and reduced waste
  • Ability to respond rapidly to interruptions in execution

Why JDA?

JDA Factory Planner goes beyond simple constraint-based planning and exception-based reporting by providing your planners with a holistic view of factory plans and comprehensive demand, supply and capacity key performance indicators (KPIs). Based on business priorities and feasibility, your planners can address overall performance or drill down to resolve specific KPI issues.

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What Customers Are Saying

Our manufacturing environment requires a large and responsive supply chain, complex tooling and very exacting setup procedures. We use JDA Factory Planner to streamline setup activities and we can now create manufacturing plans that reduce costs and improve throughput.

Mark Ferrell
former leader of enterprise planning
Bell Helicopter