# Integrated Multilevel Production Planning Solution According to Industry 5.0 Principles
## 5 Discussion
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**Software** & **Purpose** & **Explanation** \\ \hline SAP ([[https://www.sap.com/](https://www.sap.com/)]([https://www.sap.com/](https://www.sap.com/)), accessed on 19 January 2023) & Enterprise resource planning software & Used for material transaction and planning (PP), warehouse management \\ \hline Microsoft Project (https://www. & Desktop application for project & Front-end planning for tactical \\ microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/ & scheduling and tracking, resource, and & production planning \\ project/project-management-software, accessed on 19 January 2023) & cost management & Backend for centralized planning \\ \hline Microsoft Project Server (https://www. & Database-based project and portfolio & Backend for centralized planning \\ microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/ & management (PPM) solution & repository for resource data \\ project/enterprise-project-server, accessed on 19 January 2023) & & \\ \hline TPG PSIink & & \\ ([[https://www.theprojectgroup.com/en/](https://www.theprojectgroup.com/en/)]([https://www.theprojectgroup.com/en/](https://www.theprojectgroup.com/en/)) & Standard interface software for the & Integrates all the different database-based \\ integration-middleware, accessed on & integration of PPM and ERP systems & components of IMPS \\
19 January 2023) & & \\ \hline TPG ProjectLink & & Establishes cross-project links and helps \\ ([[https://www.theprojectgroup.com/en/](https://www.theprojectgroup.com/en/)]([https://www.theprojectgroup.com/en/](https://www.theprojectgroup.com/en/)) & Multilevel scheduling component for & to identify and maintain \\ project-management-tools/program- & Microsoft PPM solutions & interdependencies between different \\ management-ms-project, accessed on 19 January 2023) & & \\ \hline TABLEAU ([[https://www.tableau.com/](https://www.tableau.com/)]([https://www.tableau.com/](https://www.tableau.com/)), accessed on 19 January 2023) & Application with flexible reporting & \\  & features/comprehensive reporting & Tableau used for all kinds of reporting \\  & platform & \\ \hline SMART DIGITAL ASSISTANCE & Shop floor manufacturing & Collecting data connected with working \\ (VER 1.0) & assistant software & orders (quality, working orders, \\  & & connected with SAP) \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: IMPS components. planning activities in order to achieve a better efficiency of the planning system. Here, the goal was to achieve the system architecture that enabled a unique solution for design-to-order manufacturing without complex interventions into the existing system, overcoming the most common barriers in Industry 4.0 implementation [6; 7], which are the human resistance to change, high investments, a lack of needed skills and knowledge for its implementation and use, and challenges of the adaptability to the new system. IMPS is a hybrid solution for SMEs, which aims to advance their planning system from commonly used Excel sheets to a more advanced system, although there are financial and knowledge limitations for the implementation of highly complex software. The implementation took place over six months and currently, fifteen people use it, four of the planners actively. The users quickly adapted to the new system and the terms it uses. No major technical issues were recorded, only human logical errors. The next step which the company now aims to achieve is that more people are included in the planning system. IMPS provides an overarching master plan that covers every phase of KPT's transformer production from design through production. It includes a plan for the design phase, one for core stacking, one for the coil-winding phase, and so on through to testing. Each subproject is automatically uploaded to the overarching plan. As each part is interrelated, every individual plan is adapted when someone alters one aspect of one project. The result is a consolidated master plan that delivers exceptional transparency.