Advanced Planning & Scheduling
Global Solution Center Advanced Planning & Scheduling (GSC APS)
Improving performance through Advanced Planning & Scheduling
Planning for Profit (making better decisions faster)
In today’s increasingly competitive business environment it is an ongoing challenge for companies –in order to stay ahead of competition –to produce or transport more with the same resources (efficiency), improve delivery performance (effectiveness) and exceed customer expectations (satisfaction).
But how do you make your process lean and mean? In your production environment, can you solve the daunting question of which product version to produce, where and when? What is the impact of closing, moving or building new plants and stock points? How does your supply chain perform with changing forecasts? How do you determine the right number of shifts on your machines without jeopardizing your delivery performance? How do you align your capacity (e.g. human, material, goods, transportation) with your ever changing demand and still be cost effective without hampering customer services?
Better planning is directly related to better performance! But today’s planning is a complex puzzle: there are legal restrictions, trade unions agreements and local working practices to observe. You have to keep the skills of your employees in mind, as well as required equipments, orders, tasks, transportation and infrastructure. What’s more, your business has very special rules and requirements. Clients, as well as your employees, would like you to respect their preferences. You need to schedule trainings, holidays. You need to respond to illness and changing demand. Advanced planning & scheduling capabilities can solve these issues and enable you to efficiently plan your resources and optimize your primary process.
Global Solution Center Advanced Planning & Scheduling (GSC APS)
Capgemini’s GSC APS mission is: Delivering clearly demonstrable added value and a competitive edge to our customers by improving their planning processes based on innovative APS technology. In order to realize this mission the GSC operates based on a proven APS approach, which consist of four phases.
- APS Business Alignment, to identify the potential business benefits based on our best practices and brought industry experience.
- APS Solution Alignment, to design the required solution given the planning decisions the business rules and the required technical architecture.
- APS Build, to develop and implement the defined solution in order to realize the business benefits.
- APS Run & optimize, run and support the APS solution. Optimize in the sense of continues improvement by evaluation KPI’s.
The GSC operates globally based on a distributed delivery model having local project managers and business consultants and remote delivery centers.
Strength through partnership
With Quintiq, Capgemini’s GSC APS has formed a strong alliance in serving industries with APS solutions. Quintiq focuses on providing the most advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain optimization solutions. With Quintiq we serve a wide range of industries and vertical markets worldwide, including workforce, logistics and manufacturing, and have been successful at 30+ companies, often industry leaders.
Wim-Paul Swanborn & Herman Bosker
Contact us at our Utrecht office or fill in this contact form.
Tel: +31 30 6898402
E-mail: gscaps.nl@capgemini.com