Production Planner

A schedule the floor will actually run, loaded against what your machines can really produce in the hours you really have.

Your Production Planner builds next week's plan from the orders you have taken, loaded against what your machines can really produce in the hours you really have. If the work does not fit, you hear that on Friday with the three options that would make it fit, instead of finding out on Wednesday when a machine is booked for two shifts in one day.

It checks material before it schedules, not after. A job with no parts is not put on the board and quietly hoped for. It goes on the shortage list with the part, the gap, and the date it is needed, so somebody can order it while there is still time.

It groups work that shares a setup. Two jobs needing the same changeover run back to back. Run them apart and you pay for that setup twice, in hours you did not have to spare.

The rush job never gets absorbed quietly. When a customer calls asking for something tomorrow, you get one page: what the rush needs, which orders it pushes back, which customers go late and by how many days, and the extra changeover it costs. Then you decide. That is the difference between a plan and a rumour.

Every Monday, the truth about last week. What was scheduled, what actually ran, and the cause of every miss by name: material, capacity, changeover, breakdown, or quality hold. A number with no cause behind it never changed anything.

Works with whatever system holds your orders, routings, and stock.