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Forecasting and scheduling

Burman Associates can help your company to improve its performance through more accurate demand forecasting, reliable planning and scheduling. We offer a unique combination of technical expertise in forecasting techniques and senior level experience of their practical application at all business levels.

Forecasting

We can advise on the choice of forecasting methods most appropriate to your business, taking into account your industry, your place in the supply chain, your product and your target customer groups. In addition, we can provide training in the selected techniques, and practical help with implementation. While the techniques of forecasting may be for specialists, the results will contribute to strategically important company plans. The review and acceptance of business forecasts are therefore matters of critical concern.

Planning

Accurate forecasts of demand are useless unless translated into effective action, and we offer extensive experience of developing reliable plans for operations. The task is to reconcile the aims and constraints of different areas of the business in the overall company interest. Detailed methods will vary depending on the needs of each individual business and a range of techniques is available. More important than planning techniques, however, is that the process should be open, and that the whole company should be committed to implementing a plan, once approved.

Scheduling

We can help you to establish appropriate management procedures and reviews to ensure that all affected functions are committed to the planning process, and to the subsequent implementation of approved plans. Scheduling is the activity that gives a time and sequence to a list of jobs that must be done – few companies do it well.

We can help you review and improve:

• Information required to create the schedule

• Methods used to construct the schedule

• Priorities in scheduling
• Feedback from executed schedules in order to improve future schedule

Better scheduling results in:

• Improvement in meeting customer requirements on delivery timing

• Better use of resources

• Better material yield
• Reduction in time required to prepare for the next job list
• Reduction in total production time required to make the jobs on the list

 Better scheduling means better service to your customers.

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