Provides graphical tools to manage and plan multiple workcentres in the medium term. Block Scheduling is a pre-smoothing tool which helps ensure that forward plans accurately reflect the balance between potentially volatile market place requirements and optimum run sequences of long runs and steady states. Block Planning helps you plan and optimise your grade transitions. Block Scheduling can be fed by your forecasting system. You can plan your paper machines and downstream workcentres weeks in advance. Block plans represent both time and projected volume of planned makings of specific product types. Blocks are interrogated and automatically populated by order entry and stock replenishment, providing a dynamic view of capacity commitments and available to promise. Blocks can be viewed graphically or in list view, with all of the underlying data about orders, reservations and yet to be filled capacity. Block manipulation and “what-if?” are available. The planner can manipulate blocks by lengthening or shortening, or changing sequences. Details of the impact of any proposed amendments to the block plan, such as late order prediction are presented to the planner before the changes are made firm, or the what-if? scenario is abandoned.

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