Savings
Where do savings come from?
APS financial impact does not come from merely having a better plan, but from removing phenomena most plants treat as normal yet that generate significant cost.
Higher effective utilization of machines and resources
In most plants, machines do not run continuously because of missing orders, but because operation sequencing causes material waits, operations are not synchronized with bottlenecks, changeovers occur more than necessary, and the plan does not consider all constraints at once.
Unrecorded operational micro-disruptions that are not classified as breakdowns materially reduce real plant productivity.
Recovering 3–5% of effective machine time per month delivers measurable financial benefit.
Reduction of work-in-progress (WIP) value
WIP is a direct result of poor operation synchronization. If orders start without considering downstream capacity, they pile up between operations, lead times grow, WIP inventory rises, and working capital is frozen.
Excess WIP is a direct consequence of poor order flow through the process.
WIP value often drops by 10–25%, directly freeing cash.
Reduced workload for planners and production managers
Without APS, planning is constant firefighting: manual schedule fixes, reacting to delays, recalculating ripple effects, communicating changes to the shop floor. Much of the planner's time goes to problems caused by wrong or missing information.
- • Manual schedule editing
- • Reacting to changes
- • Recalculating delay impact
- • The plan recalculates automatically
- • Impact of changes visible immediately
- • 1–3 hours of work recovered per day
Combined impact of all three areas
Only the combined effect delivers full financial impact: higher resource utilization, less capital tied up in WIP, and lower planning team workload.
These parameters directly affect the plant's financial results — not just planner comfort.
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