The two basic objectives are planning and meeting the deadlines of manufacturing as well as optimum manufacturing resources planning and utilization.

For the purposes of manufacturing planning the PANTHEON MF software is organized in such a way to enable different approaches to planning for different types of manufacturing. It covers everything from individual and batch (small series) manufacturing all the way to large-scale and mass or process manufacturing as well as make-to-order (MTO) or make-to-stock (MTS) manufacturing. It is suitable for simple as well as highly structured products and combined manufacturing processes. The process planning functionality in PANTHEON enables multilevel, i.e. partial and comprehensive, planning. It mainly focuses on medium-term operative planning and fine-tuned short-term manufacturing scheduling.

Enter items in the plan manually or by transferring them from sales orders, manufacturing module, from other plans and from the scheduled material plan using tools.Scheduling material requirements planning enables calculation of gross and net material requirements for the period of an individual plan taking into account stocks, estimated consumption and manufacturing. Depending on the settings, you can also take into account individual dates.

The capacity planning enables calculation of capacity requirements for an individual plan in comparison with the available operating resource capacities. The program window includes several panels providing various overviews of the required capacities and available operating resources. Moreover, the program enables different printouts of capacity load of operating resources required for plan realization.

Scheduling in PANTHEON MF is a detailed schedule breakdown and coordination of manufacturing deadlines and effective resource management. It is carried out through operational manufacturing planning taking into account specification data, in particular from technological manufacturing operations. We can also use simpler methods for scheduling manufacturing such as time-phased scheduling and scheduling by daily production quantities. Both methods require less input data and at the same time provide material requirements and resources planning.

You can later create work orders through material requirements planning. Use the tools available in the Process WO window to set the order of executing work orders and lastly to present this order via a Gantt chart where you can manually set dates on a WO schedule at a microlevel.

Cost estimates are used to create approximate estimates of the price of manufactured and assembled products. Data is taken from the estimated (normative) direct material and work costs listed in the basic product specifications.

Cost estimates reveal the cost structure of all specification levels, expressed as the total cost of material and labor expended for the item.

Cost estimates can be limited to only certain types of items or materials, making it possible to create partial costing for products that contain only certain types of materials or work. Material and labor costs can be determined using a number of metrics when creating cost estimates, or settings from defined business events in manufacturing can be summarized. A number of price simulations are also available. An item’s detailed cost estimate provides an overview of manufacturing costs broken down into all levels of the item’s specification.

Cost analyses run in the background of the module for tracking work orders in production; they provide overviews of the actual production costs of the items in work orders. These actual costs stemming from materials and labor pertain to items when they are received at the warehouse from work orders. The amount and calculation method for costs depend on the settings for work order document types. A number of detailed and summary cost analyses are available.

The program also offers analyses of work orders and documentation linked to work orders. Analyses provide overviews of work order status, issue and receiving slip statuses, unfinished manufacturing, and linked document reports. All analyses can be performed by combining a number of different metrics.

Using this module you can edit and maintain multi-level specification structure of products. In addition, use technological procedures to define production processes in individual modules. Thus even the most complex specification structure assemblies and production processes can be processed in a straight-forward and easy-to-use way, delivering best-of-breed solution. This is the very purpose of PANTHEON application.