The Study Of Planning And Scheduling System Implementation For Company MD

Chinese manufacturing industry has inevitably been required to upgrade and transform along with the trend of Chinese economic upgrading and transformation, while information technology is one of the important methods to promote this whole process. Through the implementation of APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) system, we can enhance the supply chain planning management level of enterprise, improve operational efficiency, increase enterprise profit and promote the transformation and upgrading of enterprise. However, APS system is still not familiar or popular to internal enterprises and the number of successful cases is quite small. Thus, in this situation, choosing an advanced APS system and mastering the correct implementation strategies and methods is of vital importance.Having MD Company’s planning and scheduling system implementation as the case for our study, we have analyzed the business area covered by APS system, indicate the necessity of actualizing planning and scheduling system and conclude the general solutions to business problems as well as implementation methods. First of all, this article analyses the development process, the current usage situation and the main problems of MD Company’s planning and scheduling system as well as gives out a brief introduction to the history and main concept of planning and scheduling system. Meanwhile, it also indicates the both domestic and foreign current usage situation and the advanced developing direction of planning and scheduling system. Secondly, In order to solve the general problems of MD Company’s planning and scheduling system, we dissect the problems respectively, with the idea of business flow and module of plan management, and analyze the current situation, the causes of the problems and their improvable chance. Also, with the existence of ORACLE APS products, we elaborate the general business flow and the solutions to the key business problems. Based on what we have done above, we analyze the implementation methods and process of the APS system, expound the general implementation methods of planning and scheduling project as well as the management means, point out the key steps during the implementation of planning and scheduling system and how they could possibly challenge our business and, as a special note, we indicate that the implementation of APS system could not be accomplish at one stroke, it is a gradually advanced process that required us to optimize our business flow and enhance our management ability. At last, we conclude about the prospective profit, the current limits and shortage of the project, also we describe the prospect of the future development of the MD APS as well as the suggestion about the further working direction.