Manufacturing Planning

Manufacturing Trends

In the broad area of manufacturing, whether it is food & beverages, forest, paper & packaging, textiles or miscellaneous manufacturing, business process optimization is key success factor. The operating environment is characterized by intense competition; customers demand better products, greater variety and higher delivery performance. Supply chain integration and innovative ways to collaborate are needed to enhance performance. In doing so manufacturing companies must plan how to use raw materials economically and produce timely quality products while at the same time planning by-products, co-products and final packaging size of market-ready finished goods. Quintiq understands these challenges and offers a variety of planning solutions.

Quintiq Planning Software for Manufacturing

Quintiq software solutions are helping companies to improve the business performance providing them with distinct capabilities:

  • Generation and optimization of tactical capacity plan
  • Integration of individual production sites into one virtual factory with the possibility to optimally spread orders over individual production sites
  • Scheduling of the supply chain in an integrated approach, including all individual production steps, bottling, packaging, lab tests, transport etc.
  • Optimal sequencing of production orders, taking into account all relevant factors like set-up times, cleaning times, contamination, due dates, availability of personnel
  • Providing management information on time to optimize and improve the quality of planning decisions (e.g. in case of last minute orders)
  • Optimally reacting on disturbances within the production processes or related to machine breakdowns
  • Insight into the level of material loss and the possibility to minimize this.


The revolutionary manufacturing planning solutions engineered by Quintiq improve results through increased productivity and supply chain efficiency. The result: enhanced agility within and across all of these areas.

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