Competitive Manufacturing Concerns
Increasing competitive pressures and increasing manufacturing complexity are combining to force more and more management teams to struggle to cope with conflicting demands to simultaneously win new business and to keep 
existing business.
- Offer ever-more products and options
- Provide ever-shorter lead-times and smaller lots
- Ensure ever-higher levels of on-time delivery
- Perform without excessive inventory
- Execute without increasing costs, and in some cases while lowering costs
- Produce without what later turns out to be too much of the wrong capacity
Maybe TACTIC Advanced Planning and Scheduling Software Can Help
Many management teams are turning to TACTIC advanced planning and scheduling software to help improve competitiveness. TACTIC explicitly and simultaneously considers their limited capacity and limited material as they promise delivery, plan production, plan material, plan capacity, and deal with changes and problems. As new orders, order changes, material problems, production problems, vendor problems, and business changes occur, TACTIC projects the realistic effect on: delivery, utilization, and inventory.
TACTIC Features
TACTIC possesses sophisticated what-if features. These features let management teams quickly combine formal data (e.g., orders, routings, inventory, bills-of-material, and capacity limits) and intuition (i.e., what-if ideas). TACTIC allows them to select the best what-if ideas to continuously balance what's good for business with what's good for customers, as changes and problems with increasingly complex tradeoffs occur. TACTIC's what-if features provide significant visibility and flexibility improvements over reports, staff meetings, wallboards, and spreadsheets commonly used to project, simulate, and fix ever-increasing problems and changes.
TACTIC Configuration
Management teams can configure TACTIC in two ways. Some use TACTIC standalone for planning, order promising, scheduling, and capacity management. Others integrate TACTIC with their business systems. TACTIC enables them to better use their valuable business system data to overcome the advanced planning and scheduling limitations inherent in business systems.
TACTIC Benefits
Many management teams have found that adding TACTIC saved them the cost, time, and disruption of replacing their business system to improve competitiveness. In many cases, it helped them boost the return from their business system investment as well. They used their business system data, TACTIC's sophisticated what-if features, and the improved visibility and flexibility provided by TACTIC to develop plans that simultaneously:
- Increase sales revenues
- Lower manufacturing costs
- Tie up less capital in their businesses