At the matter of time, advanced planning and scheduling have played a vital role in many aspects

of work and daily life, especially in production management. However, taking part in these
activities manually takes a great amount of time and work. Therefore, to help people to work on
planning and scheduling more efficiently with shortest time, plenty of software are designed and
developed which are affordable and easy to utilize. As a result, individuals and organizations are
commonly confused which is the most suitable one for them. This is the result for us to bring out
a research on these softwares and after 60 considered software, we conclude that Asprova is the
most convenient for every types of workers.
Asprova is equipped with a multiple of standard features covering everything you need on the
production floor. Over the years, it is licensed to user feedback and release updates on regular
basis, adding the features requested by factory operators. Most companies using Asprova have
been able to take advantage of the rich, practical feature set, operating in a non-customized
manner.
Asprova uses a lot of techniques.
One of the most popular method of Asprova is Gantt Chart. This method is applied in managing
human, orders, productions, and inventory in thread format.

Resource Gantt chart

How to use Gantt Chart:
- Define the project settings (start date, end date, and mode of scheduling)
- Define the calendar of the project (the number of working days in the week and the
number of working hours in the day)
 - Enter task names and duration
- Set up a global resources list and allocate resources to the tasks.
- Establish links to specify the dependencies between the project and tasks.
- Set the constraints on the tasks as required
- Make the final adjustments to the project plan

Gantt chart gives users a detailed plan (who, when and where) by taking into consideration
the series of interdependent tasks that will be performed in the proper sequence and ensuring that
they are matched with the right resources. It is easily viewed the availability of the team
members and rearrange the workloads with the drag and drop features. It also allows project
managers to assign resources to multiple projects. Moreover, it will properly show resources on
Gantt chart thereby enabling the team to maximize their resources and make vital project
decisions.
This helps in maximizing and optimizing resources (human, material, machine, …. ) while
assisting the goals and objectives of project.
From these tables, it gives the operation table.

Besides, Asprova implements the MRP and Aggregate Planning to create PSI table that allows to
confirm required tasks for the day by facility and operator. Additionally, Asprova helps to
calculate movements in demand, supply and inventory in day, week, or month packets, or add
your own calculation fields as necessary.

Furthermore, Integrated master plan (IMP), is applied in Asprova. The Integrated Master Plan
(IMP) is an event-based, top level plan consisting of a hierarchy of Program Events. Each event
is decomposed into specific accomplishments and each specific accomplishment is decomposed
into specific Criteria. The IMP is ultimately used to develop a time-based Integrated Master
Schedule (IMS) to shows a networked, multi-layered schedule showing all the detailed tasks
required to accomplish the work effort contained in the IMP.

There are three elements of the IMP:

1. Event: a program assessment point that occurs at the culmination of significant program
activities
2. Accomplishment: is the desired result(s) prior to or at completion of an Event that
indicates a level of the program’s progress
3. Criteria: provides definitive evidence that a specific accomplishment has been
completed
The IMP is an event-driven plan in which the events are not tied to calendar dates; they are tied
to the accomplishment of a task or work package as evidenced by the satisfaction of the specified
criteria for that accomplishment. Accomplishments in the IMP should have criteria for
determining completion with clear evidence so that the entire program team can understand the
progress. The IMS is time driven, tied to calendar dates, and should be defined to the level of
detail necessary for program execution. The IMS is a hierarchical, tiered structure capable of
rolling up to high-level summary representations of activities as well as breaking down to the
lowest level of task details showing dependencies, resources, durations, and constraints.

Next, is load graph. Load discrepancies can be viewed by day, week or month for each resources.
Load graphs share a similar implementation, whether they were developed for initial load of data
or for a subsequent baseline. The Integrator Sample Applications include a full load graph,
named LoadData, that you can use as a model for building your own load graphs.
You can load data either before or after loading the attribute schema, as described in Configuring
Attributes. If you load data before loading the attribute schema, records will be created with
default values for standard attributes. You will likely find that you go through several iterations
of loading data and reconfiguring your attribute schema before you determine the configuration
required to meet your needs. In each iteration, you will delete the data in the data domain, update
and reload the configuration and attribute schema, and reload the data.

Load graphs generally consist of the following components:

+ One or more data reader components

+ Optionally, a Reformat component

+ One or more joiner components

That can express process of a group of machines.

Finally, many techniques were adjusted for other purposes, for example, Sales, Purchasing, KPI,
Optimization,…..