Our new video highlights what some of our clients appreciate most about our work. The planning and scheduling systems we develop allow you to adapt your operation easily to achieve desired results in an ever-changing, rapidly-evolving business environment.
Complex problems are distilled down to easily understood dashboard items. Your view is customizable allowing for your individual operation's data to be recorded and analyzed according to your needs. Various costs such as labor, scrap, downtime, maintenance and the like can be included to offer you exactly the analyzed data you need to operate at full efficiency and to increase productivity. Our flexible programs can handle one or a number of your facilities simultaneously. You will always know where you stand regarding your overall operations, inventory and distribution.
Your supervisors will benefit from information they never had available before in such a readily accessible format. The realistic production schedules that are generated by the system can track everything from raw materials inventory to finished goods available for transport as well as employee availability in each area of your production floor. You can decrease downtime tremendously with an intelligent scheduling system that assures materials are there when you need them, that parts are available to keep your machines running, and that you have your staff deployed properly.
Bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the manufacturing process are pinpointed so that you can focus your resources in exactly the right place. Once your schedule has been prepared, your system will continue to monitor your operation, in real time, to detect any divergence from the operational plan; then it will alert your supervisors, allowing them to avoid producing defective parts or wasting material.
Improvements in scheduling and planning are the most valuable and cost-effective opportunities a company can take advantage of quickly and easily by working with PlanetTogether. Stronger operations start with better planning and scheduling decisions.
In this article, you’ve seen how better planning and scheduling can simplify complexity, increase operational transparency, and reduce bottlenecks across your production floor. But even with great intentions, many factories still rely on manual, spreadsheet-driven planning that silently erodes all those gains.
Our infographic, “The Money Is in the Planning,” makes this problem visible immediately. It shows the main ways manual planning systems undermine profitability and growth—lost sales from late deliveries, wasted capacity from poorly sequenced changeovers, overtime to catch up at bottlenecks, escalating inventory carrying costs, unplanned downtime, and expensive expedited shipping.
Use it to spark a conversation with your team about where planning is holding operations back—and what you could recover by improving scheduling and flow.
If you’re also talking with your demand planning or supply chain team, you can pair it with our quick visuals on what demand planners can and can’t control and an MRP breakdown of key inputs and outputs to show how upstream decisions drive material shortages, excess inventory, and production volatility.