The hand-built plan set the length of the month.
The monthly workload was 13 orders, made as 91 batches across 80 reactors. The hand-built schedule took 41 days and 10 hours. The planning question was how to fit that same workload into a shorter schedule.
Planning the workload as one schedule.
Neuron brought orders, batches and reactor availability onto the same plan. Scheduling the batch sequence against the reactors produced a plan of 36 days and 22 hours.
This is a comparison of schedules for the same workload. It shows a shorter planned duration, rather than a measured record of when every batch finished on the shop floor.
4 days 12 hours shorter in the plan. Durations shown for the same workload.
Capacity and the inventory turn.
The report describes approximately 10% more capacity from the shorter schedule. It also identifies a ₹38.6 crore working-capital opportunity on ₹386 crore of inventory, with annual turns moving from 1.44 to 1.58. The financial figure is an opportunity associated with the inventory turn.
The same workload. A shorter schedule.
| Measure | Hand-built plan | Scheduled plan |
|---|---|---|
| Orders | 13 | 13 |
| Batches | 91 | 91 |
| Reactors | 80 | 80 |
| Plan duration | 41 days 10 hours | 36 days 22 hours |
Active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) plant; monthly planning comparison. The annual inventory-turn comparison (1.44 to 1.58) and ₹38.6 crore working-capital opportunity are separate financial planning figures, not shop-floor completion or cash already released.
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