Conflicts? Don’t look for them — show them.
Have you ever looked for stuff you’ve forgotten?
You were looking for house keys, but didn’t remember where you put them — You’ve written down something important but left your note inside a jacket that just went through laundry —
Yes, we all understand the importance of centralizing information: all data should be well-structured, and accessible for everyone — that’s why people use Excel and Spreadsheets, but they are far from perfect.
Spreadsheets: the jack-off-all-trades
Spreadsheets are a decades-old, trusty way to process data, but is it efficient enough for collecting your manufacturing data? A spreadsheet is a utility tool for many things, but it’s old, complicated, and time-consuming to work with. For example, when you and multiple users are on the same spreadsheet, you just have to wait till everyone is done. That’s just one of many reasons why forward-thinking companies have stopped planning with spreadsheets.
The modern solution: know what you want; show what you want.
Think of a team of restaurant waiters; they were serving different dishes to customers based on their requests — This is precisely how a modern production planning solution works. Every member in the manufacturing line: workers, supervisors, planners, managers… should receive their individually curated information, nothing more, nothing less. This protects your employees from drowning in the giant flood of data and helps them avoid the chaos of Excel spreadsheets. After all, why should we look for things when they could come to us themselves?
Conflict Radar: A planner’s dream comes true
In planeus, we have Conflict Radar. Conflict Radar is an active, hands-free radar showing you directly where, when, and why conflicts happen in your manufacturing plans. So, instead of you crawling through long pages of data and painstakingly checking conflicts and errors, Conflict Radar will auto-identify and highlight them directly on your screen. Now, that is for sure a planner’s dream coming true!
Why is Conflict Radar so powerful for your manufacturing data collection? Click on the link below and know more about Conflict Radar!
