What Noah does, better than any other system on the market today, is enable you to more effectively plan and execute your company's production requirements. Quickly define all of your labor and workcenter resources and build jobs. Easily include time estimates and sequence of operations. Print out reports summarizing what needs to happen, when, and what quantity.

Is there a problem meeting the schedule date? If so, delay the Job with a click. Need to change priority and reschedule? Simply reschedule in new order and let Noah take care of the details.

The most common processing of the Noah system works in three simple stages:

Default & System Definition

The first stage consists of default definition., including: Global daily defaults, Holidays, Workcenters defined, and exceptions list (for automatic reporting on delays at workcenters).

Build & Schedule Jobs

Then Jobs are 'Built' with Customer name, Job Number, start date, and a super easy method for sequencing workcenters. Next, the newly built Jobs are sequenced and schedules are created.

The user has the freedom to try various quantities, with alternate start dates, and view the resultant summaries of resource requirements and schedule dates. It is in this phase that capacity constraints are revealed -- as well as when labor and machine resources should be scheduled.

Each schedule can either be viewed on screen or printed. The result of this second phase is an accurate production plan start and stop dates, and critical time path to successfully meet due dates.

Execution

The third and final stage consists of using and reporting on the schedules created in stage two.

By design, Noah does not require updates to actual schedule - but allows you 'by exception' to flag jobs that are delayed and report on the cumulative effects of all delays.

When the exceptions (or any other event) warrant that some Jobs need to be rescheduled, Noah features an easy single click method to remove one or more Jobs from existing schedule, arrange new priority, and reschedule. Easy shipping and comprehensive reporting round out the Noah system.

 

The dynamic screens that display the visual schedule in Gantt Chart format, along with the Resource Loading Chart that shows a color coded key to hours loaded and hours available by Workcenter by Day, are the key interfaces for daily interaction with the Noah system. These two screens are automatically updated by the Noah system anytime a schedule is generated or changed.

In addition to the live schedule and resource loading, Noah contains several easy-to-use and intuitive reports to convey important management and system information.

The reports are run from the menu bar, and once run, can be accessed directly and instantly by worksheet tabs. All reports feature an easy to read standard layout, printing, and graphing. In addition, the user has full access to perform any custom formatting on cells, rows and columns using the standard options off Excel Format menu.

 

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