MCM

MCM is a graphical capacity planning tool to coordinate and plan production in a better way and to provide tailored suggestions to the customer. It has to handle management and timing of the production process by verifying:

1. Machinery capacity

2. Materials availability, both in the warehouse and to the suppliers

3. Additional resources

4. Prefixed deadlines

MCM helps Textile & Apparel company to solve many issues and analyzes bottlenecks. The main strength is the definition of a complete insight over all departments and a real integration with the system Datatex ERP TIM/NOW. In MCM all production requests, either coming from the ERP or entered manually, are prioritized and then placed on the Gantt. This can be done in either a finite capacity evaluation or an infinite capacity evaluation. Using finite capacity planning the system loads capacity based on a first-come, first-served approach and calculating the delivery date. Infinite capacity planning loads capacity based on requested delivery date and highlights the over-capacity bottlenecks and the planner determines the priority and delivery dates.