Lawson Planning Workbench for the Food & Beverage Industry
Meeting Your Master Production Planning Needs
Lawson Planning Workbench for Food & Beverage is a standalone advanced planning system that offers the support you need for your master production planning process. It’s specifically designed to meet the needs of food and beverage companies and delivers greater transparency in production, inventory and capacity across plant or geographic boundaries.
Lawson Planning Workbench for the Food and Beverage Industry is based on and uses, PMSIM, an industry-recognized highly-successful planning tool acquired by Lawson when it purchased Intentia in 1998. For more information regarding PMSIM see Lawson History and the PMSIM Handbook.
If your production planners need to prioritize resources in the 1-week to 12-week timeframe, then Planning Workbench for Food & Beverage is for you.
It helps you to:
- Visualize overall inventory;
- Manage production lines with a full view of variables in real-time;
- Plan on multiple levels – not just finished goods;
- See problems more quickly – both in material shortage and capacity;
- Plan both machine capability and labor capacity;
- Reduce costs by avoiding stock-outs;
- Reduce unnecessary shifts and unsold product.
The Right Decisions and Tradeoffs
Planning Workbench for Food & Beverage can create a series of “what if” scenarios that help you make the right decisions and tradeoffs. This information can be combined to create a master production plan outlining capacity, stock and supplier delivery schedules.
The system integrates with the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System helping to streamline deployment. It offers a simple, intuitive interface designed to minimize employee training time and can adapt and grow with the changing needs of your business.
With a clear picture of overall inventory together with resource utilization information, Planning Workbench for Food & Beverage can help you make better short- and long-term planning decisions – improving your efficiency and your bottom line.
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