About What-If Planning and Scheduling

During your planning analysis, you may need to investigate corrective actions before executing them within the current production plan and schedule. An alternative specifies the data that drives a run of the APS Planner or Scheduler. Each alternative represents a scenario to be analyzed. Typically, you will design several alternatives to investigate a set of viable options.

You can switch between analyzing Planner or Scheduler data by selecting Planner or Scheduler from the Options button on each analysis screen. Planner is the APS program that generates synchronized manufacturing plans. Scheduler is the APS program (apssrvr.exe) that optimally sequences operations to produce a realistic production schedule.

You can create "what-if" scenarios with copies of your production data, make adjustments to the data, and then analyze the results to determine whether the scenario is feasible. Use these forms to analyze alternate planning data:

Control Forms

APS Planning

APS Sites and Alternate Management

Planning Parameters

Scheduling

Scheduling Parameters

What If Planning Parameters

Input Forms

Batch Definitions

Holidays

Resources

Resource Groups

Shift Codes

What If Demands

What If Items

What If Operations

What If Planner BOMs

What If Planner Effectivities

What If Planner Item Deliveries

What If Planner Remote Items

What If Routings

What If Scheduler Batched Productions

What If Scheduler BOMs

What If Scheduler Items

What If Warehouses