Manage Module for AGI Velocity Suite

Challenge

The production floor is a place where many tasks of varying complexity and consequence exist together, competing for a company’s time and resources. AGI-Goldratt Institute has helped many of its customers change their information systems and processes to manage production priorities.

Prioritizing incorrectly is costly for business because it prevents products from being delivered in a timely manner. Early deliveries typically entail storing products not yet needed and missing opportunities to deliver those that are. A missed deadline translates into (at worst) a lost customer or (at best) pouring money into overnight shipping, overtime, and other inefficiencies. Many firms have a software foundation in place but lack the features necessary to achieve breakthrough performance. Also, many firms already have a long list of IT changes scheduled or lack the funds to implement desired changes.

Keeping Your Priorities in Line

AGI set out to create an application that would complement its thought-ware solutions and leverage their customers’ existing software investments. In came the newest component of AGI’s Velocity Suite™ – MANAGE – a web-based prioritization manager that uses time buffers to improve execution management. MANAGE makes the complex simple by using data already present in the customers’ existing ERP or MRP system streamline task prioritization into a “one number priority system.” This allows firms to compare the varied tasks of production – apples to apples – and prioritize them accordingly.