APS-ADVANCED-PLANNING

Production planning optimisation under constraints.

Definition

APS solves Master Production Schedule (MPS), Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP), Detailed Scheduling (DS). Solvers: Kinaxis, Aspen Plant Scheduler, SAP IBP Response, Asprova, Quintiq.

Origin

Modern APS emerged from 1995 (i2 Technologies, Manugistics).

Example in context

A pharmaceutical plant uses Aspen Plant Scheduler to optimise sequencing of 300 batches/week.

Related terms

• MES — downstream execution.