Automated production scheduling with Business Central

Posted August 30, 2023

Dynamics 365 Business Central provides a comprehensive platform so small to medium sized manufacturers can more efficiently manage scheduling, capacity, inventory and more.

With Business Central Manufacturing, you gain access to a range of features and benefits, including:

• Production reporting and orders
• Supply planning
• Demand, sales and inventory forecasting
• Capacity planning
• Warehouse management, and more.

There are also third-party apps that give Business Central Manufacturing even greater power. MxAPS is an app that generates production schedules to optimize your resources, ensuring you’re delivering products and goods on time. As orders are received and entered into Business Central, MxAPS by Insight Works automatically gives your manufacturing business realistic production schedules.

Other benefits that MxAPS will bring to your operation:

Automatic machine center selection
Business Central with MxAPS automatically schedules the most appropriate machine center (areas like a packing table, a powder coating booth, welding station, and others) using finite capacity scheduling. The schedule ensures work is allocated to the most suitable machine centers, optimizing completion time.

Optimize shipping and receiving
Extend MxAPS to your shipping process, optimizing just-in-time scheduling and reducing inventory levels.

Production sequence
Define custom sequencing rules to optimize your production by scheduling the manufacturing of certain products first or splitting up large orders into smaller runs.

Integrate with existing systems
MxAPS for Business Central integrates with existing manufacturing systems for paperless schedule dispatching and real time production reporting.

Optimize equipment maintenance
Equipment can be taken out of circulation for maintenance and MxAPS will update your production schedules to reflect this.

Manage changeover in your production schedule
Sequence or group production orders to avoid additional setup time required for specific production orders.

Manage constraints
If you have limited employees available, MxAPS for Business Central will decide what machines to run based on available labour.

Transform your production planning and scheduling into responsive, repeatable, and accurate decision-making for your manufacturing business. Joesoftware is a trusted partner that’s ready to put Business Central to work for you.