| Swanson
Group, Inc
We
have been using the RMDB scheduling software, increasingly,
for the last year. I say increasingly because there was
a lot of reluctance to using it first. The reluctance
came because there was the idea that even though plywood
production is “Old Technology” manufacturing,
the intricacies of the different species and manners to
deconstruct a log into various sizes of veneer and the
reassemble it into plywood was too difficult to schedule.
This has been proven incorrect by your software and a
lot of hard work in implementing it both by you and our
staff. It has allowed us to:
-Reduce
manning in our finish end by knowing when each machine
center was going to be needed
-Reduce aged inventory by enforcing a process of netting
out what was in inventory vs. what incrementally was
needed to meet sales demand
-Increase on time shipments as we now know what will
be the bottleneck in the mill any given week and work
around it.
-Highlighted issues of raw material supplies that
had been hidden in the past.
-Allowed our maintenance staff to plan their work
around machine usage and not during times the machines
are needed.
Thanks
for your help,
Jeffery
K Winter
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