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CDC Delivers New Planning Product

Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 5:15:00 PM       Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox                            Digg This Article   Add to Delicious

Abstract:CDC Software subsidiary Ross Systems introduces new release of production planning and scheduling tool aimed at mid-market and larger process manufacturers.
Keywords:CDC Corp., CDC Software, Ross Systems, OnePlan, production scheduling, production planning, supply chain management, KPIs
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    Mid-market enterprise application vendor CDC Software officially announced its latest supply chain management offering today. OnePlan 5.0, available from CDC subsidiary Ross Systems, seeks to smooth the production planning and scheduling process via an on-demand software tool.

    When it comes to supply chain planning, a critical part of the equation for any company involves the scheduling of its production processes. Given the fickleness of the supply chain, plans can change on a dime, and manufacturers must be able to quickly adjust their production processes to synch with those fluctuations.

    That is where OnePlan 5.0 proves its mettle, according to Chris Taunton, product manager for supply chain product planning at CDC Software. The three main components of the OnePlan suite are its scheduling capabilities, a set of KPIs that can plot a company's progress toward goals, and an alerting system for production changes.

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