Martin Karlowitsch
Co-Founder & Chief Curiosity Officer
Aachen, Germany
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I am an entrepreneur and a passionate Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Manufacturing guy.
After selling my previous company (NETRONIC Software) to and integrating it into Boyum IT, my brother Elmar and I took a break to identify and build "the next Karlowitsch thing".
This break is over, and we have skin in the game again. We followed our hearts, souls, and brains and decided to play where we can both deliver the most value and have the most fun. Hence, our new venture lets us build Pulseoniq - a new manufacturing ISV that is 100% focused on Business Central. With Pulseoniq, we deliver quiet intelligence to noisy shopfloors.
We build real-time execution intelligence and control apps for discrete make-to-order manufacturers on Business Central who keep getting surprised by their own shopfloor. Unlike conventional tools that promise a better plan — or data capture apps that record what already went wrong — our apps tell your customers what's happening, what's starting to slip, and what they have to do next on the shopfloor before the customer calls.
Last, but not least, I am the author of the "Business Central and Manufacturing Pulse" report.
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Capable-to-promise and production scheduling (a provocative view)
Make-to-order manufacturing customers strongly depend on making precise delivery time commitments. The capable-to-promise function is an ideal tool to support them - from the perspective of the items' availability.
However, the same function is dangerous from a capacity perspective. Make-to-order manufacturers who are capacity constrained might get dangerous information when they use the CTP function. The reason? Well, as is normal in Business Central, CTP runs on the assumption of infinite capacity. Hence, CTP provides users with unrealistic delivery dates.
An answer to this could be the capacity-constrained resources function. Switching it on will solve the issue of unrealistic delivery dates. However, it will provide users with a schedule that they cannot execute.
In this session, I will come up with a provocative (or creative?) idea on how make-to-order manufacturers should work with the CTP function *and* maintain an always current, actionable machine schedule - with finite capacity scheduling.
Win the battle between production planning and scheduling
Getting production planning and scheduling right oftentimes is seen as the “holy grail” in manufacturing. Both planning and scheduling aim at balancing demand and supply.
However, planning oftentimes is less restrictive whereas scheduling (aka production order and machine sequencing) has to deal with much more restrictions. Consequently, sometimes planning and scheduling tend to work against each other.
This session shows best practices on how to integrate production planning and scheduling within Business Central. From capable-to-promise, over the planning worksheet to finite capacity scheduling.
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