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Cross Function means working across the functions that deal with different resources like aircraft, pilots, cabin crews, ground staff at airports, maintenance etc.
Traditional sequential planning allows the evaluation of one schedule at a time possibly allowing minor incremental changes based on feedback from other functions. Each function produces the lowest cost plan and the aggregation of these constitutes the overall plan.
A significant part of the cost reduction is to assess the effects that measures taken have on different parts of the business.
The Cross Functional Method achieves substantial overall improvements by identifying the pre-requisites that are most constraining for each function and iteratively modifying them. Contrary to traditional scenario calculations with long lead-times, the iterative process is rapid. This is achieved by using an integrated system that has the ability to automatically produce thousands of schedule modifications and constantly make sure business rules are not violated.
By using extensive proprietary tools for integrated planning, Industrial Optimizers has the unique ability to deliver such results in a very short time frame.