Background :
Our client manufactures automotive electrical connections consisting of plastic parts (connectors) and metal parts (terminals) in two basic parts production units (Metal & Plastic) and a dedicated assembly workshop. The company plans its operations from the Master Production Schedule (MPS) to scheduling, integrating forecasts and customer orders via EDI directly into its planning.
The Industrial and Commercial Plan (ICP) level is absent from the planning system. The company directly integrates all variations in customer demand into the fixed horizon (production cycle) of its PDP without being able to perform adequacy checks (load/capacity) or component checks (stock & procurement).
Objectives :
• Establish a diagnosis and a shared action plan
• Prioritized deployment on key themes related to the deployment of the PIC process (mapping the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders, ensuring the reliability of the customer demand management process, providing training on the process, implementing robust and resilient planning of the Industrial Plan for the operational management of UAPs (standards and procedures), synchronizing physical and information flows, managing irritants, and ensuring data reliability)
Result:
The implementation of the PIC process had the immediate effect of protecting customers and production by providing a vision of the projected workload over time, thereby enabling management to anticipate and make decisions based on these objectives (OTD, profitability, productivity, etc.).
Integrating the PIC into the planning horizon makes it possible to challenge customer forecasts and prevent their variability from spreading to production and suppliers.
The PIC is a process that validates management approval of a scenario (quantity, production date, and resources committed) for each product family.
Any customer modifications exceeding the variation defined by the scenario must be approved by management.
Project features
Industry: Automotive
Expertise: Supply Chain
Location: Villemur-sur-Tarn (31)
