Production planning FAQ

It means every work center has a limited number of hours in each shift, and the scheduler never plans more work than fits. When a machine is full, the next operation waits for the next free window, and the order's finish date moves with it. Read more about advanced planning and scheduling software.

Use the times your planner and operators quote today, even if they are rounded. They are good enough for a first schedule. On the Plant plan and above, every job marked done on the floor records its actual time next to the planned one, so the operations that are always slower or faster than written stand out and you correct them week by week.

Yes. Each work center has a setup time for switching from one product family to another, and every changeover shows on the Gantt chart as its own block, so you see what setups cost in hours. On the Plant plan and above, the scheduler also groups similar jobs to cut the number of changeovers, as long as that does not push another order past its due date.

Every plan schedules by earliest due date. On the Plant plan and above you choose between earliest due date, shortest operation first and customer priority, and run the same orders under each rule to compare on time performance and bottleneck load before you publish. Our guide to job sequencing rules explains when each one wins.

Set the machine to down in the schedule and enter when you expect it back. One click on reschedule moves the jobs it was due to run, either to its next free window after the repair or to an alternative work center from the routing. Any order whose projected finish now passes its due date turns red at once, so you know who to call before lunch.

Yes, on the Plant plan and above. For every order the schedule checks the materials it needs against stock on hand and open purchase orders, and lists what is short, by how much, and by when.

Yes, on the Plant plan and above. The operator at each machine opens the queue for that work center and shift on a screen, a tablet or a phone, and taps start and done on each job with the actual quantity. The planner sees the same progress on the Gantt chart without walking the floor.

The data is yours, on every plan. Export orders, routings, work centers and schedules as spreadsheets whenever you like, and delete your plant's data whenever you choose. Cancelling does not lock anything away: you keep full export until the paid period ends.

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, backed up daily, and access is controlled by roles. The production planning data security page has the details your IT team will ask for.

Yes. Single sign on is included on Group, and SAML with SCIM provisioning is included on Enterprise.

No. All four plans are paid subscriptions, billed monthly or yearly per plant. What costs nothing is the demo on the home page: it loads a machine shop, a bakery or a fabrication shop and runs the real engine in your browser, without an account.

You pay per site, not per person. A plant is one site with its own shop floor and its own work centers, and every plan includes unlimited users, so operators at the machines and people in the office do not add to the bill.

Yes. Every plan can be billed yearly, and a year costs ten months instead of twelve. See the full production scheduling software pricing.

Yes, on Group and Enterprise. Send the purchase order and we invoice against it with payment terms. Line and Plant are paid by card.

Cancel from your account settings at any time. The plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for, and you can export all your data before then.