GIB Production
Capacity Planning and Scheduling Optimization Built Directly into SAP
"Our Production Materials Manager would not want to go back to the old system for any reason in the world, as the planning module in GIB has greatly simplified the planning process for the production lines and brought numerous benefits."
Massimo Moliterni | Supply Chain Manager at Schott
Improve Schedule Adherence
Evaluate capacity, material availability, and order priorities together directly within SAP.
Increase Throughput
Stabilize schedules and improve the flow of orders across work centers.
Optimize Capacity Utilization
Balance workloads across machines, labor, and production resources using live SAP planning data.
Strength On-Time Delivery (OTD)
Align production schedules with real operational constraints before orders reach the shop floor.
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The dashboard consolidates capacity requirements, available capacity, backlog, and overload/underload thresholds into matrix and list views by work center and period (daily, weekly, monthly). Users can toggle between load, offer, remaining capacity, order quantity, and operation count views.
Color-coded overload logic highlights red (over capacity) and green (available capacity) directly within the matrix. Capacity period views allow drill-down into exact orders driving overload.
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Schedulers access a structured planning table where operations can be moved, sequenced, and reallocated across periods or work centers. Orders can be repositioned interactively based on real capacity availability.
The planning table connects production orders, planned orders, work center capacities, order pool, and area-specific layouts.
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GIB allows planners to adjust working times, shift models, and operation durations directly within the scheduling view. Setup, machine, and labor times can be modified at the operation level, and non-working time or maintenance windows can be inserted without leaving the cockpit. Capacity adjustments immediately update the schedule, allowing planners to test realistic production scenarios and resolve overloads without separate configuration steps in SAP.
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GIB embeds production order management directly within the scheduling cockpit. Planners can convert planned orders, adjust capacity, run heuristics, deallocate operations, and review pegged requirements without navigating across multiple SAP transactions. Execution steps that typically require separate screens are consolidated into the scheduling environment, allowing planners to analyze impact and take corrective action in one continuous workflow.
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GIB provides a consolidated view of pegged requirements and bulk or container order relationships. Planners can see how bulk production quantities are allocated to dependent materials, trace multi-level order linkages, and evaluate supply alignment across finished and semi-finished goods. This improves transparency in environments with packaging splits, container production, or shared bulk processes, reducing misallocation and improving execution reliability.
