What is MTO Planning?

As manufacturing companies adopt LEAN techniques such as reducing inventories and moving towards a make-to-order business model, they start to expose the limitations of the generic planning and scheduling tools provided by most ERP systems.

The traditional buffers of time and excess inventories that are built into traditional enterprise systems cover a multitude of problems that become critical when they are removed from the planning process. This process quickly exposes a need for a new type of planning tool that will help companies improve the way they manage their capacities. Our belief is that because the way you sell your available capacity has a huge impact on your bottom line you need the right people and the right tools in place.

MTO Planning is designed to help you create a better plan and to use that plan to manage your business on a day to day basis:

  • *       Create a plan that clearly identifies the type of business that will bring you the best margins and long term benefits. This involves prioritizing certain products, product groups, customers and order types.
  • *       Provide a day to day mechanism for interpreting the way that priorities and promise dates are assigned to new orders.

 

MTO Planning is a new and powerful tool that is specifically designed to meet the needs of the make-to-order manufacturer.

Who needs MTO Planning?

  • *       Companies who are primarily make-to-order
  • *       Companies who are implementing LEAN/MTO concepts
  • *       Companies who are currently using Excel, Access or MRP to do their planning
  • *       Companies who need to reserve capacity for certain products, product groups, customers or order types each month.
  • *      Companies who find themselves always jumping to service the squeaky wheel.