Industry Alpha launches solutions to optimize production planning

Issue Background

In Japan’s logistics and manufacturing industries, digitalization of SCM (supply chain management) is considered important as a way to optimize the balance between supply and demand, which is subject to rapid change. Production planning is considered the most important aspect of optimizing the supply chain. Production planning involves deciding what to produce, when, and how much to produce.

Currently, both planning and management are carried out on an individual basis, which requires a lot of labor and labor.

In addition, production planning relies on the skills of veterans, which makes it difficult to share knowledge and know-how.

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Industry Alpha Solutions

Problems that arise when reducing the labor required for planning and managing production plans include low product accuracy and no results, despite the introduction of general-purpose products.
We have heard many such customer complaints at our sites.
In fact, there are various invisible constraints to optimizing production plans, and in most sites adjustments are made by veteran workers based on their intuition and skills cultivated over many years.

1. Presence or absence of repaired or defective items
2. Requests for each day of absence of workers
3. Compatibility of products and each process

We have developed a “production plan optimization module” that solves the above problems and enables “anyone” to easily create optimal production plans for your site.

before
・Planning takes a long time
・It requires knowledge and know-how, so it’s difficult to teach
・It’s managed in Excel and difficult to understand

After
・Anyone can plan production with one click
・AI automatically creates and manages the most efficient plans
・Easy-to-use, easy-to-read UI

Future outlook

By introducing the production plan optimization module, we can analyze accumulated data and achieve “accurate supply and demand management.”
By accurately understanding supply and demand, we can determine the optimal production volume while avoiding overproduction and stockouts.

1. Cost reduction
2. Improved delivery reliability
3. Improved quality control

Accurate supply and demand management ensures delivery dates are met, quality control is improved, and costs are reduced.
Industry Alpha works closely with our customers’ work sites to contribute to the smartification of factories and warehouses.