Noah is a high performance planning and scheduling offering for Job Shops, Fabricators, Service/Repair Shops, and others where customer service and shipping on time is vital. Noah will enhance the effectiveness, efficiency and consistency of your Workcenter based planning and scheduling, including cycle time reduction. Noah features an easy-to-use method to enter resource definitions, then to build/define jobs, or projects, with additional considerations such as labor and workcenter operations and routings. Next, Noah allows you to perform 'what-ifs' with different plans -- resulting in feasible and effective production schedules.

With Noah, you will know:

Daily schedules for Workcenters
Capacity requirements
Bottlenecks and Backlogs
Strategic management information, such as on-time shipments and 'late' reports to assist in optimizing operations.

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.

Simple, familiar interface
One step menus, on-screen buttons, or sheet tabs make navigation a snap.

Easy to configure and run
Quick, intuitive layout and prompts allows you to focus on your business, instead of learning another software product.

Finite capacity planning and forward scheduling
Global and/or detailed workcenter configuration can be made and applied instantly.

Integrates with virtually all systems
Easy cut-n-paste or direct file linking (DDE, ODBC, SQL, etc.) to exchange data with any system.

Powerful and Extensive Reports include:
Routing
WIP
ERD (Estimated Release Date)
ThroughPut
Backlog
Exception based tracking
Shipping

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