Management consultancy seeks a PPS for a metalworker

As a management consultant, I am looking for a production planning and control system (PPS) for a company in the metal industry. Among other things, the company carries out surface pretreatment and surface coating on a production area of over 4,000 square meters.

The software should meet the following requirements:

• Production planning – the scheduling and organizational planning of surface coating projects (currently done with MS Excel)
• Mapping and support of 8 process steps – completion of one step, then moving on to the next step; digital clipboard, color coding of the individual process steps (currently done manually on clipboards)
• Planning of loading and delivery or collection of the project
• Mobile use via tablet (Android) within the factory halls would be practical
• Overall, planning should become simpler, more digital, and clearer
• Enable access for participating department heads
• Simple solution, user-friendly
• There is a tendency toward a cloud solution (in which case it should be hosted in Germany)

Eight software workstations are planned. MS Windows systems will be used.