Production Planning

uScheduler Production

A production plan you can actually execute.

Most production planning tools draw beautiful Gantts that nobody can act on. In uScheduler Production, every cell on the board is a decision you can make. Drag an order and capacity, tooling, qualifications, sequencing and material availability all update instantly. If something doesn’t fit, you see it right away. Auto-Plan suggests a starting point and the planner fine-tunes it. Nothing changes on the floor until the planner commits. 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 with orders scheduled across ten machines over three days
Functionalities · 8
uScheduler Production · Capacity & Material Availability

Capacity and parts, checked together.

A plan only works if the machine hours and the components both 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's committed.

Live capacity, in-line
Every view shows available hours against committed hours, per work centre, machine centre, shift, day or week. Overload shows up where it happens, right on the board. The capacity picture follows you across the app.
BOM-aware material check
The check goes down to the BOM line. Each item, quantity and date is checked against on-hand stock, expected receipts and existing reservations. Shortages are named, with the missing component and the date.
Expected receipts respected
If a PO is due Tuesday, the plan won't use that material before Tuesday. It looks at incoming receipts as well as what's on the shelf, so nobody in the warehouse gets a surprise 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 checks both together, so if a move breaks either one, you see why straight away.

  • 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
  • Material checked per BOM line while you plan, including stock, receipts and 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 doesn’t check materials 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’s a Tuesday move.
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From the work-centre and machine-centre setup in Business Central, including calendars, shift patterns and efficiency factors. uScheduler reads and respects them, so you don't maintain two sets of data.

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