Preactor Product Family

Preactor is the World's leading Advanced Planning and Production Scheduling Software, having been installed in over 2,300 companies across 64 Countries around the World.

Preactor represents a family of scheduling and production planning solutions which, although based on the same core code, provides different levels of functionality and pricing so that you can select the system that satisfies both your needs and your budget.

Preactor's electronic planning board allows the automatic or manual generation of schedules in a familiar Gantt chart display format. A feature of all versions of Preactor is the ability to drag-and-drop jobs on the Planning Board to instantly see the consequences of changes to the schedule.

Preactor’s unique Open Planning Board technology for schedule optimisation allows the development of complex user rules to create a unique scheduling environment.

The following information will guide you on which Prector family member is right for you, however we recommend that you contact SMS to assist you in choosing the correct member of the Preactor family for your requirements.

To assist you in your choice please match your requirements to the following statements then click on the Preactor family member icon to view more details about that level of Preactor.

If you need to...

• Plot the usage of additional resources such as labor, tools etc
• Plot the capacity usage of resources and resource groups in hours
• Have alternative resources for an operation that has a different run speed
• Have set up or changeover times that are sequence dependent
• Allow transfer batching between operations (overlapping operations)
• To closely integrate and automate data transfer between Preactor and other software packages
• Modify the data tables such as add, rename or remove fields
• Add new data tables
• Modify the menu structure

Then is the minimum requirement

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However, if you need all this, and you need to...

• Use multiple constraints during the scheduling process e.g. machine and labor etc
• Allow multiple jobs on a resource at the same time
• Have tanks with defined capacities as a constraint
• Use Preactor at a Capacity Planning level (perhaps linked to a Forecasting system and plan months ahead)
• Cost by operation and by order based on material, resource and shift pattern
• Limit the resources that can be selected based on the previous resource selected
• Limit the start of an operation based on its finish time
• Limit the start of an operation based on the previous operation start/finish

Then is the minimum requirement

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However, if you need all this, and you need to...

• Use BOM data structures defined by an MRP or ERP system to peg or allocate materials from one or more producing orders to one or more consuming orders for example in Assemblies
• Use pegging rules to define which consuming and producing orders can be linked together
• Limit the start of consuming orders based on the completion time of producing orders
• Have access to material plots over the period of the schedule
• Provide a materials traceability report
• Identify and time material shortages
• Use complex 'optimization' dispatching production scheduling rules to, for example, introduce preferred color sequencing to minimize set up time, minimize work-in process etc
• Create your own unique production scheduling rules

Then is the minimum requirement

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However, if you need all this, and you need to ...

• Have access to the Preactor BOM exploder to be able to use Preactor to obtain 'Capable to Promise' (CTP) delivery dates on products with a multiple level BOM from within Preactor.
• To be able to switch Preactor into 'Auto Order Promise Mode' to allow 'blind' CTP enquiries to be made on a live schedule by sending messages from other Preactor systems (for example a Preactor Viewer) or other applications.

Then is the minimum requirement

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Preactor Graphical MPS

There are many differences between planning and scheduling applications. Capacity Planning is about deciding what, when and where to make product usually based on forecast demand, current stocks and inventory control rules. Adding this data to current sales orders provides the basis for the generation of a master production schedule, MPS. This is then used by ERP systems to provide works or shops orders as well as purchase orders for the period based on the Bill of Materials structure or BoM for each finished product. More Info..

Then is the minimum requirement