Production Planning

uScheduler Production

A production plan you can actually execute.

Most production planning tools draw beautiful Gantts that nobody can act on. uScheduler Production starts from the opposite premise: every cell on the board is a decision waiting to be made. Drag an order and capacity, tooling, qualifications, sequencing and material availability all update instantly — if something does not fit, it becomes visible. Auto-Plan proposes a feasible starting point; the planner refines it; nothing changes on the floor without the planner committing. The result is a plan you can show on a screen above the line without explaining, and defend in a sales meeting when somebody asks "when can we ship it?

Production planning board showing work centers and scheduled orders for week 19
Functionalities · 8
uScheduler Production · Capacity & Material Availability

Capacity and parts, checked together.

A plan is only real if both the machine hours and the components line up on the day. uScheduler checks capacity and material availability in the same pass — at planning time, and every time you drag — so a move that would start without hours or without parts is flagged before it is committed.

Live capacity, in-line
Available hours versus committed hours on every view — work centre, machine centre, shift, day, week. Overload surfaces where it happens, not in a separate report. The capacity picture follows you across the app.
BOM-aware material check
Down to the BOM line. Every needed item, every needed quantity, every needed date — checked against on-hand stock, expected receipts and existing reservations. Shortages are named, with the missing component and the date.
Expected receipts respected
A PO due Tuesday means the material is available Tuesday — not before. The plan respects the receipt schedule, not just the current stock, so the warehouse never finds out at 06:00.
What you see

The two checks that decide whether a plan ships.

Capacity-only planning produces a clean schedule that the warehouse breaks at start-of-shift. Material-only planning ignores the bottleneck on the floor. Both have to be true at once: hours available, parts available, on the same day, on the same order. uScheduler treats them as one feasibility check — a move that violates either is flagged with the cause.

  • Capacity and material checked together on every drag and on every auto-plan run
  • Per work centre, per machine centre, per shift, per day load visualisation
  • BOM-aware material check at planning time — on-hand, receipts, reservations
  • Per-component shortfall report with proposed action (delay, substitute, expedite)
  • Holidays, planned maintenance and shift exceptions respected automatically
Production planning board showing two weeks of orders across ten machines
When this matters

Signals you'd reach for this.

01
Shortages discovered at 06:00
A plan that does not check materials is a plan that finds out at start-of-shift. The first hour is lost — and the customer date with it.
02
Capacity is a spreadsheet
A capacity report that lives in Excel is a snapshot of a moment that has already passed. Planning needs it live, next to the moves.
03
Plans assume infinite parts
Capacity-only tools schedule onto green machines with empty bins. The plan looks clean; the floor is angry.
04
Overload is discovered too late
A constraint that becomes visible on Monday morning is a Monday-morning crisis. Visible last week, it is a Tuesday move.
FAQ

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From the work-centre and machine-centre setup in Business Central — calendars, shift patterns, efficiency factors. uScheduler reads and respects them; you do not maintain two sets of data.

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