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Using ILOG PPO, planners can analyze inventory levels, monitoring days of supply over time. Enlarge image (opens a new window)

ILOG Plant PowerOps (PPO) delivers the detailed planning and scheduling most enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) solutions can’t provide – even the leading ones. It complements them, bridging the gap between planning and execution. Our newest version – ILOG PPO 2.0 – further extends this powerful application’s functionality with several new modeling, interaction and visualization features. This new version of ILOG PPO covers the entire production process, and its newest version comes with enhancements that appeal especially to companies in the food and beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.

New features include:

• Modeling and optimization for tank management, cleaning rules, batches and material flow, and inventory targeting by days of supply
• Interaction for manually modifying plans by creating, deleting, merging and splitting production orders
• Visualization for an inventory coverage view, calendar editor and workload view, and a redesigned planning book

The ideal solution
The ideal way to make a product is to model its entire production process in an interactive planning and scheduling environment that’s accessible to both factory planners and shop-floor personnel. ILOG PPO uses the most fine-grained models for optimizing production, and comes with graphical editors and displays for refining schedules and comparing them within the same screen. Planners develop the best solutions for production operations using key performance indicators, and schedule adjustments can be made on the shop floor to accommodate unforeseen events. To learn more about ILOG PPO, visit http://ppo.ilog.com.