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Advanced Planning and Scheduling PlanetTogether (APS)

Discover PlanetTogether (APS), a software dedicated to the scheduling and advanced planning of your production.
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Planning and scheduling automation

Optimizing the production schedule prioritizes on-time delivery and improves throughput by avoiding excessive preparation times, allowing you to respond with agility and ship on time. Optimize your production visibility across the company. Start by planning manually or enter your production constraints and rules into the system to automate the scheduling process. Once you have the necessary data, you can create schedules in seconds, not hours. This frees up your planners to use their experience to improve company performance and make the tough decisions that only humans can make. Planners can adjust resource allocations, sequences, and priorities as needed, achieving the perfect balance between automation and expert control.
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What makes Advanced Planning and Scheduling PlanetTogether unique for planners?

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Ultra-flexible Gantt

Provide complete visibility into your plant’s planning so your teams can react quickly to unforeseen events, adjust schedules, and optimize the allocation of resources and your teams. This flexibility facilitates scenario simulation, continuous process improvement, and guarantees better productivity, by ensuring controlled deadlines and proactive adaptation to changes.

Activity tracking
The Activities Board is used to analyze scheduled job activities, fine-tune the schedule via manual modifications as necessary, and/or report progress on running activities. This board offers users many options to manually move or reschedule activities one at a time or in bulk, or even edit activities and operations from within the board. 
Managing optimization rules
The Sequence Planning board is a place to score various optimize factors to help influence the order in which jobs and operations are scheduled, and which resources are used for each task by PlanetTogether's schedule optimization logic. An ideal sequencing plan results in a streamlined production process, minimizes waste, and reduces errors and the need for rework.
Stock and inventory tracking
Inventory Plan Board offers detailed inventory-level information for every item and material used throughout the production process and provides users with a visual representation of supply and demands. The inventory plan will allow planners to ensure sufficient materials to supply incoming demands and enough time to purchase or manufacture additional materials. 
Set your Metrics and Targets
A Metric in PlanetTogether is a custom performance indicator which helps to evaluate the performance of some specific object data property or sum of many properties based on the current data and schedule. A Target is a desired value or goal for the particular metric. A Summary metric may also be tracked to track the Sum, Average, Minimum, or Maximum value of any numerical property that is visible in the associated grid layout.

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Connect to your data sources (ERP, MES, ...)
The Import Mappings Board is the gateway to the Interface Setup Wizard. The wizard guides users through the process of creating and testing an interface to a backend system database. Through this, you'll be able to get data from your ERP, your MES, or any other software that could provide interesting data like your HR software for vacation management for example.
Configure your views and grids
All main grids in PlanetTogether are highly customizable to present each user with the information they want to see in the format that they want it presented in. 
Also, views can be modified according to users preferences to show them the most useful data and information to them. Their settings are all stored as part of their Workspace  Profile which can be shared with other users, if desired.
Advanced User Management
PlanetTogether provides a collaborative experience between multiple levels and departments within a business by supporting any number of users who might each have unique permissions according to their role.
Users may also share (export) their Profiles so that other users may import them. Profiles can be exported to a shared collection that gets stored within the Workspace, or exported to a file that can be moved from one Workspace to another.
Custom Reporting

The PlanetTogether Report Designer is used to create and modify Reports that can be loaded into PlanetTogether. 
It allows you to create custom reports, with access to the entire dataset of PlanetTogether and the possibility to get data from other sources if you want to cross your data to have complet reports.

CoPilot Sequence Planning
CoPilot Sequence Planning offers a means to let the system run many simulations in order to determine the ideal Sequencing Plan Factors that will produce the best schedule according to KPI data. You define the KPI you want to improve, and CoPilot will do the rest.

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The questions you have about PlanetTogether APS

What's PlanetTogether?

The PlanetTogether Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system offers rapid and adaptable capacity planning, scheduling for production, and MRP (material requirements planning), integrating seamlessly with your current ERP system.

  • Boost sales through reduced production lead times.
  • Decrease stock levels by synchronizing manufacturing processes with actual demand.
  • Lower per-unit expenses through more efficient manufacturing cycles.
  • Enhance decision-making with insights into capacity, scenario planning, and analytics.
What is planning and scheduling?

Planning and scheduling within a factory are essential pillars of production management, aligning productive processes with the company's objectives while maximizing efficiency and profitability. Production planning focuses on determining the quantities of products to manufacture, the timelines for completion, and the necessary resources, taking into account capacity constraints and market requirements. It spans several temporal horizons: strategic for the long term, tactical for the medium term, and operational for the short term, to adjust production plans to demand fluctuations and external environment contingencies.

Scheduling, on the other hand, comes after planning. It involves the concrete organization of production on the ground. This means defining the precise order of manufacturing operations, selecting equipment, and assigning personnel to various tasks, all while respecting time and quality constraints. Scheduling aims to optimize the use of available resources (machines, raw materials, labor) to achieve production objectives efficiently, thus minimizing waiting times, intermediate stocks, and production costs.

In summary, planning and scheduling are two complementary processes that together enable dynamic and responsive management of a factory's production activities. They contribute to achieving the company's objectives in terms of deadlines, costs, quality, and customer satisfaction, by continuously adapting production operations to the changing market conditions and internal requirements of the company.

What licensing models are available?

PlanetTogether licenses are available in "Perpetual" mode or "Subscription" mode. 
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What are the limitations for connecting PlanetTogether to other systems?

PlanetTogether can connect to other systems through SQL procedures. As long as it is possible to access the source data of your other system through this procedure, this will be possible.

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