A production bottleneck is the point in your production process where the load is greater than what the step in the process can handle. These delays can cause longer production cycles and lost productivity across the entire operation. Experts suggest that bottlenecks have caused nearly $12 trillion in losses globally. These production bottlenecks can exist at the supply-chain level, but can also exist in any single unit operation or business, from manufacturing to production.
Production scheduling can help not only identify bottlenecks and evaluate the root cause, but can help create specific strategies to iron out bottlenecks.
How ERPs Help Identify Production Bottlenecks
Visual Scheduling Data
Get a bird’s eye view of all your production steps with visual data. Quickly get a real time evaluation of your workflow. Data can tell you where your bottlenecks lie, and where your perception of your production process fails to match reality.
Continued Analysis
Software will be crucial to tracking and analyzing the impact that new changes and implementations have on the production process. Data allows managers to test new solutions or to allocate new resources on a dime to the correct departments.
Root Cause Testing
One of the primary reasons that bottlenecks persist is not because managers cannot locate them, but because there is ambiguity regarding the root cause. Bottlenecks have many contributing factors, from personnel, to system limitations, to a lack of understanding between processes. Increased data and testing can help businesses determine the root cause of their problem, so that they can implement the best solution.
How to Resolve Production Bottlenecks Using ERP Software
Lessen the Strain
If a particular aspect of a process is causing a bottleneck, consider allocating it to a different department, spreading the burden between teams, or outsourcing it. Bottlenecks can be temporary or long-suffering, and overcoming them may seem daunting, but it will be better in the long term to solve the issue, rather than let it idle.
Increase Resources
If there is a strain in a part of your production process, the instinct is to throw more resources at it until it is solved. It will be important for businesses to do this strategically. Incorporating more personnel will not solve the problem if the cause is infrastructural. Software can help companies make these crucial deductions.
Solve Visibility and Information Silos
Software keeps all departments aware of each other and their systems, cutting down on departmental silos and increasing throughput.
Use Production Scheduling
Production scheduling handles system limitations by scheduling system maintenance, tracking inventory and shortages, sending real-time alerts when problems arise. Whiz Synergy’s Production Scheduling modular option helps your team schedule labor and machines more efficiently.
Choosing the Best ERP for Your Business
For small to medium businesses, having an ERP specifically scaled to your business can make implementation simple, affordable, and timely. Whiz Synergy offers features adaptable to your business’s needs. If you’re ready to bring an efficient flow of communication to your organization, sign up for a free demo.
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