TLE.market callers have the experience and knowledge to qualify key issues with executives in areas of advanced planning.  This type of expertise is used to help us ask the right questions of a busy exec and avoid irrelevant questions that may lead them to hang up.  

Below are just a few of the high level & granular topics we can discuss:

Examples of High Level Issues
• Increasing inventory turns & lowering inventory carrying costs
• Flexible scheduling for improving customer service
• Accurate CRP to provide an accurate Available-to-Promise
• Communicating accurate demand to suppliers; in real-time
• Accurate & flexible predicative forecasting for accurate MRP

Examples of Granular Knowledge
Capacity Requirements Planning
• Shop calendar with a Gantt chart of work orders/ work centers
• Graphic presentation of work center load
• Capacity Planning Simulations
• Infinite ( forward) & Finite ( backward) capacity logic
• Recalculating work center/machine load from release and planned
• Detailed and summarized load reporting and inquiry
• Displays department/plant capacity summaries

Demand Forecast Planning
• Forecast Development and Modeling 
• Various forecasting methodologies 
• Using "what-if" forecasts
• Forecast Performance analysis 
• Changing models with smoothing and moving averages 
• Statistical Forecasting 
• Exploding forecasts against planning bills
• Interfacing with other tools like Excel

Optimization Planning
• Resource modeling by various models
• Solving excess material or material shortages problems
• Determination of required constraint buffers 
• Generation of an optimal plan given multiple constraints
• Optimization of sequence-dependent operation setup/changeovers
• Usage of bill of material and routing effectively dates

Repetitive Scheduling
• Back flushing setup; with pay-points
• Repetitive planning by item or by production line
• Schedule adjustment based on actual and MPS changes
• Repetitive schedule order release
• Summary planning inquiry, with drill down into detail load
• Daily production scheduling by item, site and production line
• Multiple production lines with varying rates and work shift

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