CTI’s planning and scheduling solutions give packaging manufacturers the ability to determine the most efficient and profitable schedules possible, based upon user-selected rules—tailored to their unique business processes and needs.
We offer software planning and scheduling solutions for every entity in the paper packaging supply chain—from paper mills to corrugated and folding carton plants. These solutions include specific functionality for corrugator scheduling and trimming, converting scheduling, full plant finite scheduling, shipment planning, production reporting, supply chain execution, and more. Our software provides extensive functionality that enables you to improve planning, meet fluctuating customer demand, and collaborate internally across all of your manufacturing operations—all at a low total cost of ownership.
Flow Planning
Flow planning, CTI’s comprehensive approach to planning, is the optimization of customer requirements, raw materials, machines, people, and processes to meet customer and business needs. CTI’s flow planning processes are based upon customer-focused pull-through scheduling techniques that schedules shipping, converting machines, and corrugators based on the customer’s required due date and time.
Flow planning, as implemented in CTI’s software suite:
- Demand driven
- Focused on customer needs & experience
- Starts with customer’s required delivery time
- Corrugating and converting operations scheduled with consideration of shipping requirements and offline processes (i.e. off-site 3rd party processes)
- Can be centralized (multi-site) or non-centralized
- Improves asset and material utilization
- Increases efficiency and agility
- Supplier and customers enjoy reduced working capital levels