Conclusion and Outlook

Usually, commercial manufacturing orders are accepted, scheduled, produced and supplied OTIF (on-time in full). Therefore, the delivery time is often a consequence of the plant workload and less a maintained expected delivery specification, and if, it is seldom 100% observed and has to be renegotiated. To improve OTD (on-time delivery) in the widespread B&Q-based production systems, improved and advanced production planning and scheduling PPS systems (so-called APS) are applied instead of questioning the pushed B&Q manufacturing mode. And exactly this has been the topic of this book.