Manufacturing enterprise resource planning, with a schedule that fits the floor
Your ERP runs orders, purchasing, inventory and invoicing, and it should keep doing that. The part it rarely does well is the production schedule, which is why so many plants with an ERP still plan in Excel. ProductionPlanning.ai replaces that spreadsheet, not the ERP.
Why plants with ERP software still plan production in Excel
The planning module of a manufacturing ERP is often the last thing configured and the first thing abandoned. It was set up with fixed lead times, it does not know that the second press is down this week, and changing a sequence takes more clicks than editing a cell. So the planner exports the orders, builds the real plan in a spreadsheet, and types the dates back in.
- The ERP has the orders, but not the sequence on each machine
- The spreadsheet has the sequence, but not the capacity
- Nobody sees the bottleneck until an order is late
- The plan lives in one file on one laptop
Production management next to your ERP, not instead of it
ProductionPlanning.ai schedules your orders with finite capacity on real shifts and setup times. On the Plant plan and above, it takes the orders from your ERP export and sends the schedule back out as a file your ERP can import.
- Import open orders from your ERP export, with column mapping saved once (Plant plan and above)
- Finite capacity schedule per work center and shift
- Late orders and the bottleneck on one screen, with material shortages (Plant plan and above)
- Export start and finish dates back to your ERP (Plant plan and above)
- API for a direct connection (Group plan and above)
Your ERP stays the system of record for money and stock. The schedule becomes the system of record for time.
ERP software for production planning, without another implementation
Replacing an ERP to get a better schedule is a year long project with a consultant. Adding a scheduler next to it is a week of your own time: export orders, write down routings and shifts, run the schedule. Nothing in your ERP changes.
- No migration of accounting, purchasing or inventory
- No consultant needed to start
- Priced per plant, with unlimited users
Compare MRP systems with finite capacity scheduling, or see how advanced planning and scheduling works inside ProductionPlanning.ai.
Keep your ERP. Replace the spreadsheet.
Run the demo, then bring in your own open orders.
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