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Enterprise Resource Planning

notes Until recently, APS systems were provided by a different set of vendors than ERP vendors.
Such systems have been very expensive to implement, costing a million dollars for a
mid-size manufacturer to upwards of a tens of millions for a Fortune 500 company.
Furthermore, such systems still need to be integrated with the in-house ERP systems, to
execute the plans created by an APS system. The cost of purchasing, implementing and
integrating an APS system has been expensive until now.

Baan’s advanced planning solution
Baan has developed its own APS system that can either be purchased fully integrated with
the Baan ERP system, or as a stand-alone, to work with a different ERP system. Baan’s
APS solution, called BaanSCS Planner and BaanSCS Scheduler, leverages the popular
constraint-based techniques and delivers the same capabilities as mentioned above, but
with a dramatically lower cost of ownership. For Baan ERP users, the APS capability comes
pre-integrated, allowing even a lower cost of ownership.
BaanSCS Planner complements the BaanERP planning capabilities, such that the combined
planning solution provides a best-in-class planning environment that integrates the
performance, constraints technology and simulation capabilities of BaanSCS Planner with
the richness of the materials management concepts supported in Baan ERP planning system.
Hence, constraint-based planning and simulation concepts can now be cost effectively and
easily applied to mixed mode manufacturing environments, including Engineer-to-Order
(ETO), Make-to-Order (MTO), Assemble-to-Order (ATO) or Make-to-Stock (MTS).

BaanSCS
Planner

ERP Baan ERP
Planning APS Engine Planning
Engine Engine

- Mixed – mode Manufacturing - Constraint Based - Baan’s Integrated Approach
Provides Capabilities from Two
Technologies in One Planning
Environment
- Planning Concepts - Memory Resident
- ATP Capabilities - Rich Decision Support
- Forecasting / Sales - Rich Interactive
Integration Interface

figure 2: Baan’s approach creates a rich – planning environment
key capabilities of the Baanscs planner
BaanSCS Planner complements BaanERP’s planning capabilities with its functional richness
in the following areas:
1. Constraint-based Optimization with Bottleneck Detection
2. Full Integration with BaanERP
3. High Performance Planning Capabilities
4. Advanced Analysis Tools and User Interface

5. Advanced Simulation Environment
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