Manufacturers to get IT boost

HCM CITY — IT solutions provider Global CyberSoft Viet Nam and its Japanese partner Asprova introduced a Production Planning Scheduler to executives from more than 50 companies at a meeting in HCM City yesterday.

The software will help manufacturers to maximise their profits by reducing time, inventory and laborious efforts for production scheduling.

In the wake of intensive global competition, businesses need to find measures to remain competitive and profitable, according to Le My Phuc, a solution consultant at Global CyberSoft Viet Nam.

Besides having qualified human resources, Phuc said businesses should re-assess how their planning function is carried out, and look for tools that will support the decision-making process and generate schedules in a timely manner.

Plants often employ people to perform production scheduling, and the complexity of the task requires experts who have 10-20 years of experience.

But even with such experts, scheduling time often takes weeks to complete and efficiency is not very high due to human limitations.

Inefficient planning and unclear objectives could lead to significant increases in variable costs, Phuc said.

At the seminar, Global CyberSoft and Asprova representatives gave a demonstration of the software, and explained how the solution could address the problem of maintaining balance between capacity and demand.

"Scheduling cycle reduction is obviously the key benefit of this tool. There will no longer be weeks after weeks spent on production planning, but instead only days or even hours," said Tran Ngoc Son, another solution consultant at Global CyberSoft.

In addition, all important information would be fully visualised, and scheduling results would have much higher efficiency and accuracy, he added. —VNS