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• SOS Product Offering in 2006

• Features based on Customer Needs

SOLUTIONS DEVELOPED FOR MANUFACTURING

• History of ERP & Scheduling Consulting

MANUFACTURING LABOR SCHEDULING EXPERTS

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Preactor finite scheduling

1. Direct link between Preactor’s Scheduling Tools and Tugboat’s labor scheduling solution, SOS

2. Ideal for managing job assignments and worker’s skills across days, shifts, lines, departments, work centers, etc.

3. Provides high degree of fidelity to customer’s labor scheduling rules

4. Designed to manage expansion or contraction in workforce whenever needed

5. Proven productGeneral Mills, ConAgra, Moen, Bemis

6. Solid user interface

WHOWHEN & WHERE

ERPWORK

ORDERS

WHAT

CustomersSuppliersCostsPricingProductsParts, MaterialsRoutesPurchase OrdersSales OrdersWork OrdersDeadlines

ProductsPartsRoutesRoute StepsPart & RouteWork OrdersDeadlinesSequence & Times

Labor StandardsAbsencesQualifications or SkillsTime DetailsCrew & Shift RotationsJob RotationsBidding, RequestsEventsTraining Mgt. & CurrencySeniorityContract Rules

• Order SequenceLineWork CenterStart TimesDuration

• Work OrdersPartsDeadlines

LABOR ROSTER

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PRODUCT IDLABOR ORDER – Line, start time, durationLABOR STANDARD

LIST OF JOBS withLocationStart time & DurationA Name

STANDARD MAY INCLUDE2 TO 40 OR MORE JOBSPER ORDER

PREACTOR TUGBOAT

;Labor StandardLin5SsCa

Basic Labor StandardAssociated with each Product

Labor StandardUsed to build an EMPTY ROSTER

Created by TugboatUsed for Planning And exported to Preactor

Variations based onSchedule requirements

Or judgment

;Labor StandardLin5SsCa

;VariationLin5SsSun

Sunday Startup

;VariationLin5SsSu

Setup Early Start

;VariationLin5SsMnt

3rd Shift with Maintenance

;VariationLin6SsSun

Special Setup Line 6

;VariationLin5SsMini

Light Volume

Single day = 100’s of jobs

SINGLE ORDER Starts Day 3, Shift 1Runs 3 days

Selects next most senior employee

What is the best way to combine open jobs with the resources in your skills inventory?

Identify this employee’s bid job, shift, & line

Find open bid job on the schedule.

Fill it with the bid job holder???

First, examine OTHER job qualifications for this employee

Compare to all remaining open jobs on the schedule.

Make new job assignment based on OPTIMIZATION.

OPTIMIZATION FILLS THE JOB

WITHOUT OVERTIME

RED indicates that the job will have to

be filled with OVERTIME

Preactor Product Attributes created by

Tugboat’s rosterLABOR STANDARD

LABOR STATUS - FULL

TUGBOAT REPORTS AVAILABLE FROM

WITHIN PREACTOR

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