It is hard to predict how many pieces of this or that product must be baked to be placed on the shelves. This figure may depend on the day of the week, current stocks, weather, demand dynamics and much more. Production plans in real time mode calculate the optimum quantity.
Baker’s tablet
The baker’s tablet lies at the core of the production plan. With this device bakers can see what products and when they need to bake.
A separate article will be dedicated to the details of working with a tablet:
– Where to place the baker’s tablet
– How to fasten the tablet
– Baker’s instruction how to work with the tablet.
Showcase control
Hourly report about the stock on the shelves shows when the products were not available and when they were produced. Seeing this information in a personal profile will help you evaluate if you have problems with goods availability on the display and how well the production plan works.
Learn more about hourly report.
Controlling bakers, plan execution control
it is not enough to give employees a production plan. It is necessary to control that they follow it. In BakeIt.app it is convenient to use production plan report for control. Also you can set up.
Read more about production plan control.
Creating Production plan
Production plan makes the work of employees much easier. But in order to create it a manager must understand how it works and it needs time. But, as often is the case with good investments, it brings a long-time profit for the business.
The article about creating production plan will dwell on the following topics:
– Production plan for day and night shift workers
– Defining a forecast period (baking for today, baking for several days)
– Planning type (specific value, % value, automatic calculation)
– Sales forecast
– Production for several locations
– Requests from locations
Implementing Production Plans
One of the difficulties about production plans is its competent implementation. If bakers are used to working with paper plans only, then the process of automatic production plans introduction may take longer than expected. We implemented production plans many times and we are ready to share our experience with you.
Learn more about production plans implementation.