in all business areas and specialists in the
FMCG environment.
Productivity improvement
15 -20% improvement
in productivity.
Reduction in
raw materials
40 -50% reduction in
raw materials inventory.
Customer service
improvement
50 -90% improvement in
customer sevice.
Massive time
saving
Massive time saving against
cumbersome spreadsheets.
EXPERIENCED & FOCUSED
With nearly 30 years’ experience and 20 qualified staff that are fully focused on planning and scheduling, we will be able to provide a solution for your needs.
Anyone can create a good schedule given enough time. Everyone has a plan until they get hit
– Manufacturing is getting hit all day, every day and hour.
TYPICAL CHALLENGES IN FMCGs
- Variation in Raw Material and Demand
- Short Shelf Life
- Inter-operational dependencies
- Spreadsheet based planning and scheduling
- Reliant on individuals tribal knowledge
- Businesses require longer term visibility
Opcenter Advanced Planning and Scheduling is a family of software products that improve the synchronization of your manufacturing processes, giving you greater visibility and control to increase utilisation and on-time delivery, while reducing inventory levels
Some of the customers
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“Preactor has brought unknown levels of visibility to Aunt Bessie’s. Even at a business level, Preactor is starting to bring the Planning and Operations functions together and as each sees…
“I can recommend PREACTOR without fear for any discrete manufacture company, because even in our factory where we have a mix of Make to Order, Make to Stock, and kanban,…
“With the sequencing of the production plan in Preactor, materials planning has also been optimized. Now the materials supply is equalized during the month following the orders production date. Moreover,…
“Our continuous improvement project is still ongoing. We continue to expand our tools to increase efficiency. We have implemented a simple but complex modeling, documented in detail with the IT…
“Preactor enables us to achieve the full benefits coming from our work in transforming our production process towards Lean Production. Not only flexibility and visibility but also optimized usage of…
“This year we intend to expand production with a new Volkswagen project which is currently under development and its particular components are already being tested. However, with Preactor we are…
“Consulting with a practical approach and the flexibility to adapt to the DNA of UNICASA were the main reasons for choosing ACCERA and PREACTOR. After the stage of pre-project, we…
“The increased accuracy and flexibility of the system means that we can safely manufacture certain products in house that we previously would have had to buy in. In fact, there…
“Without Preactor we would not be able to create schedules so fast and of such a good quality.”
“After considering others APS Systems on the market, we chose Preactor because it was the only one that met our needs. We reduced inventory by more than 30% and delivery…
“Preactor enabled us to better understand our factory and simulate strategic scenarios very quickly. This learning is very important in business decisions and the results achieved by this project prove…
“Preactor has enabled a reduction of about 30% in the workload of the team PCP” and today we no longer use spreadsheets for sequencing of production. The advanced planning and…
“Now we can see and balance our entire workload at the press of a button. More than that, we can check at any time how we are doing in reality…
“Searching for the right tool to complement our ERP, we found that with PREACTOR we had the agility and information reliability, and with ACCERA a partner with know-how and initiative…
“Every day we discover something new about Preactor that helps us. Without a tool like Preactor I simply wouldn’t be able to function in my role as Director of Inventory.…
“No one person alone can mentally track and manage the progress of 10,000 operations on the plant floor. Now, as soon as a problem or any variance occurs, we can…
“Using Preactor it is possible to have a fast overview of the factory utilization and a quick answer to the question of achievable delivery dates of customer orders. The ROI…
“It was possible to reduce the time it took to create a schedule from 7 days to just one day.”
“We cannot imagine any more how to we could manage scheduling without Preactor. OK, it is possible, but the agility we have today is a key factor because every day…
“A major plus with the system implemented at EXAL is the confidence we have in the different planning scenarios. We now can look at all our alternatives given bookings and…
“Thanks to PREACTOR we have been able to implement ‘pull’ and not ‘push’ manufacturing. With 20 aircraft types the level of complexity involved was too much to do in the…
“It would have been much more difficult to implement Lean without Preactor not just because of the time Preactor freed up but because we can use it to look at…
“When the solution was presented we got very excited because we did not believe there would be software that could handle our needs considering the complexity of our business. Preactor…
“We have grown from a £20m company to a £70m company, doubling the number of our converting machines and handling more SKUS with much, much larger jobs while reducing our…
“It took approximately 6 months for people in the company outside of himself to begin seeing the benefits of the system. As I used Preactor every day I immediately knew…
“A major plus with the system implemented at EXAL is the confidence we have in the different planning scenarios, we now can look at all our alternatives given bookings and…
“Today, Preactor is an indispensable tool to ensure the maximization of the use of resources and optimization of Teikon processes.”
“With PREACTOR, we anticipate problems and we act quickly, optimizing our production planning in order to meet the complexities of our demand, which is characterized by high mix and small…
“Preactor has given us visibility and helped us gain trust and credibility. Preactor has enabled the business to be more integrated and we can confidently make promises and meet them.…
“When I joined the company, our On Time and In Full delivery rate was 42%, last week it was over 90%. Moreover, we now have complete confidence to give a…
“When we initiated the project with ACCERA, we knew that our biggest challenge would be to shape a tool within our production system and also to address so many features.…
“In providing services for cutting, machining and heat treatment, Cortiaço has a high diversity and variability of parts in the production process. We are always looking for new technologies and…
“Preactor is part of a larger context than the mere planning of production in Flantech. The system is part of the strategic objectives for a sustainable growth of our company,…
“PREACTOR has a high strategic importance in MEDABIL, combining the company’s expertise in the market of building systems with a supply chain that’s increasingly lean, and also sustaining the exponential…
“We now have to juggle much more detail than we ever had to – smaller orders and with quicker lead times. It’s more vital than ever to know exactly what…
“Preactor has provided us a tool to work quickly with the capacities of individual resources and also enables us to detect deficiencies in the input data, mainly in the technological…
“The information flow about our orders has significantly improved; It is now accessible at all times to those who need it. Planning is now much more structured and greater efforts…
“As our planning became more and more difficult to handle manually we were looking for a software solution. We came across Preactor and because they have been into providing Planning…
“Not only did we now have the means to easily view what was happening at any point in the business and across the entire plan, the information itself was much…
“Preactor is having an impact across the entire business. An example of this would be Preactor being able to show us where we might need to invest in a new…
“Preactor has enabled a reduction in process of about 50% and increased on-time deliveries from 40% to 80%, which has helped improve Vector LLC’s competitiveness and strengthen its position in…
“We did a thorough research about the company and their product capabilities. We also spoke to couple of Preactor users before we finally narrowed down to Preactor. A Preactor team…
“The true value of this system is not in any individual component, but in the complete integration of all systems and processes. The discipline created in the Preactor implementation, eliminates…
“This allows a much more inventive approach to scheduling. Whereas before the key objective was simply to come up with a schedule in time to be issued to the plant…
“Mega’s on-time delivery performance is up from 70% to 100% and the production lead-time reduced by 21%. Considerable reduction in work in progress has been achieved through better visibility of…
“Preactor gave us a fast scheduling response allowing the creation of alternative scenarios which has enabled us to control all stages of the production process – from the customer order…
“We use Preactor to both make to order and allow us to carry stock on critical lines. As a result of using the Preactor scheduling system our production planning has…
“The combination of increased visibility and control would not have been possible and in today’s highly competitive manufacturing market, that’s what you need to keep your existing customers as repeat…
“Preactor offers unrivalled functionalities, flexibility and user friendly interface while enabling planning capabilities that can handle very complex scheduling tasks. Imagine the complexity of having to schedule 100 book production…
“The immediate benefit was that schedulers were elevated from busy work and data management to ‘real production scheduling’. The real payoff was in the 40% reduction of work-in-progress. This is…
“Preactor gives me the visibility to make accurate delivery promises and meet these in a changing environment”.
“The biggest advantage is the ability to be able to forecast the load on each machine, and therefore to predict production lead times and have reliable delivery dates. Now it’s…
“The company is now able to 100% accurate delivery dates to expeditors. Accurate progress reports that drill right down into the progress of each part within a job can be…
“Preactor has helped drive an entire culture change within GRP. We are now making product more efficiently, have one of the best reputations in the business for reliability and on-time…
“Before implementing Preactor we used to have piles of stocks everywhere, but that is radically different now. Our on-time delivery performance is now more than 95% and work in process…
“Preactor has enabled us to push forward with our growth plans, and development of information systems in the factory. We have also been able to schedule our factory for the…
“Tight integration is saving more than 10 hours a week. Batch cards are now available at the click of a button as the interface uses the Preactor schedule to automatically…
“Ross ERP and Preactor have helped Holland Colours to become a more global company. A lot of our procedures can now be, and are synchronised. Our CTP dates are much…
“Linked to our ERP Dynamics NAV, the primary objective of reducing tool changes was achieved, and over the first 2 months, was reduced by 20%. This has now extended to…
“Despite the difficulties in the beginning, like the work to improve our SAP data quality, after only 3 months after the system went live, we have realized just how powerful…
“With better schedule accuracy and control of the machining processes, things became much clearer. In the absence of inventory on the shop floor, visibility was created and the number of…
“Thanks to implementation of Preactor it has become possible to generate real and feasible production schedules, as well as a substantial time reduction in its preparation. It has enabled a…
“Significant time can be saved by getting a smooth flow of product through each line. As many products have similar packaging requirements, sequencing these correctly minimises the changes to any…
“We have estimated that the additional ladle per day delivered by Preactor, results in an extra US$ 70 million per year on our annual revenue. In addition with the new…
“With Preactor we have got rid of much of the paperwork we had before. Now we have an integrated schedule between the two plants generated using real constraints that we…
“The benefits were noticeable right away, most noticeably in the area of increased visibility. We can now see all the orders in the system in real time, and how each…
“We have been able to minimize our non value-add processes and can accurately monitor and trace our work in process. We have better control of material movements and this has…
“The benefits of Preactor were immediately noticed, specifically in terms of delivering the much needed visibility that Armstrong required. With the entire current production plan being visible as well as…
“We would not have survived without Preactor; we are extremely pleased that we chose Preactor and implemented it with CMS when we did. On top of providing individual schedules /…
“The system has also brought levels of flexibility that were simply impossible before. We now have the ability to run ‘What If’’ scenarios which are invaluable should we have a…
“Within just a few weeks after going live measurable benefits were achieved. The lead time to assemble final drives for off-roads trucks was reduced from 4 to 3 days without…
“The accuracy of current and projected capacity utilisation provided valuable information for production to feedback to the Sales team. For example, production can now identify a specific window when it…
“The system allows us to provide a due date almost as soon as we receive an order enquiry, if later on in a project, problems occur, things can easily be…