Sophisticated Production Planning
The production in Velten, Germany, faces major challenges: Composing products designed for very different applications from standard components is subject to strict quality guidelines. At the same time, many products are being designed, developed and produced according to individual customer requirements. Due to having a very high technical competence, the company often offers special solutions, that have to be integrated in their serial production later. Hence a detailed scheduling of the best possible resources for the respective work tasks is needed. At the same time, ESK Schultze has to ensure a delivery on schedule.
No Graphical Planning Board in NAV 2013
ESK Schultze have already been using Microsoft Dynamics NAV for their business planning for years, and in the past also used the integrated graphical planning board with resource and order view. When upgrading to the current Microsoft Dynamics NAV version 2013 the company hence faced a problem:
“After having determined the schedule and extent of the upgrade project with our partner SAMUELSON, we unfortunately had to discover that Microsoft’s ERP was not only enhanced by many useful functions. In the current version, the planning board, that is crucial for our planning processes, is missing.”
Frank Danne, Managing Director ESK Schultze
An analysis of the available alternatives revealed a clear preference for the Visual Production Scheduler add-in.
