To respond to ever more demanding and unpredictable customers, you must be able to react faster and as efficiently as possible to change. Effective management of the flow of materials and control of your supply chain requires careful and effective planning.

Sage and Preactor have concluded a partnership that offers a global, fully integrated solution of Preactor 400 APS and Sage ERP X3 to make your organization more flexible and more responsive to each new demand.

You will save time and gain significant cost advantages thanks to using this powerful planning and scheduling solution.

Improve your on-time delivery performanceConnected to Sage ERP X3, Preactor 400 APS provides the planner with the capability to react automatically to change, add urgent orders, cancel or postpone others, and build a new schedule in real time. Production cycles are reduced so you can make deliveries faster to your customers.With this solution, you can generate multiple schedules, analyse and compare them, before you commit to change. In this way you make the right decisions.

Reduce CostsBy integrating Preactor 400 APS with Sage ERP X3, you get a powerful planning and scheduling solution that takes into account all the constraints of production including resources (machines, operators, tools, etc.) as well as materials (stocks and supplies etc.). The solution is quick and simple to implement, fully integrated with your system information, and inexpensive in terms of product and services investment.

BenefitsUsers have achieved the following benefits after implementing the solution:• 15-20% improvement in productivity,• 40 to 50% reduction in stocks,• 40 to 50% reduction in cycle time,• 50 to 90% improvement in customer service.

Two leaders at the service of your businessTwo leading companies Sage and Preactor have combined their expertise to offer a powerful and practical solution that perfectly matches the needs of every industrial enterprise. Located around the world, experts are available to support implementation no matter where you are.

Take the lead by integrating ERP and APS

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The Sage Group plc is a leading global provider of business management software to small and medium sized companies, creating greater freedom for them to succeed. Sage understands how and why each business is unique. We provide products and services that suit varying needs, are a pleasure to use and are secure and efficient. Formed in 1981, Sage was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and entered the FTSE 100 in 1999. Sage has over 6 million customers and more than 13,500 employees in 24 countries covering the UK & Ireland, mainland Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia, Asia and Brazil.

With over 20 years’ experience in the planning and scheduling software business and more than 4,500 client companies around the world, Preactor is used in almost 75 countries and its solutions are translated into more than 30 languages. The group works with a powerful network of experts to offer software and services to customers (more than 400 partners in the world and more than 1,000 people certified for selling and implementing Preactor solutions).

Functionality OverviewThe flexible and open architecture of Preactor 400 APS, fully integrated with Sage ERP X3, ensures it can meet the complex challenges of all industry sectors.

• Management of operations, work centres and primary resources such as machines using (multiple) finite capacity constraints.

• Management of additional secondary resources such as tools, skills, operators, and shared equipment.

• Management of calendars for both primary and secondary resources.

• Management of material constraints between dependent orders in multi-level BOMs.

• Takes into account constraints of stocks of purchased items.

• Uses configurable rules and algorithms to allocate materials to customer orders.

• Provides automatic overlap and defined delays between operations.

• Automatic re-schedule of production and repair function.

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