Planitools Finite capacity production planning: moving beyond infinite-capacity MRP MRP assumes unlimited resources. Here is how to compare load with the real capacity of your work centres and build an achievable plan, step by step. Planning Scheduling Feb 18, 2025
Planitools Implementing a production planning tool that people actually use Scope, input data, S&OP, MPS and scheduling horizons, routines and common mistakes: the method for a planning tool your teams keep using. Planning Scheduling Feb 11, 2025
Planitools Quality checks in production software: stopping defects at the workstation Checklists at the workstation, products blocked at the first wrong answer, release by a supervisor, partial remanufacturing: one manufacturer's quality module. Case study Production Feb 8, 2025
Planitools Centralised sales forecasting: good or bad idea? Centralised at head office or local, item by item: the strengths and limits of each approach, and how to organise the loop between sales and planning. Forecasting Planning Feb 6, 2025
Planitools Production flow mapping: a control tower in production software How a manufacturer mapped its operations, linked each ERP step to several shop floor operations and tracked every manufacturing order operation by operation. Case study Production Feb 5, 2025
Planitools Connecting production software to the Diapason ERP over SFTP How we linked custom production management software to the Diapason ERP without an API: 16 XML files exchanged over SFTP, a monitoring screen and alerts for the ERP team. Case study Jan 27, 2025
Planitools MRP planning and batch traceability in a food plant: a case study How a marinated poultry workshop planned over 17 days, scheduled two dependent workshops and traced its batches with an Excel-VBA tool, ahead of the ERP. Case study Planning Dec 4, 2024
Planitools Short-term Excel scheduling in food manufacturing: a case study A macro-enabled Excel workbook to spread manufacturing orders across six poultry lines, with moulds, run rates, staffing and finish times recalculated at every assignment. Case study Scheduling Dec 4, 2024
Planitools Short- and medium-term Excel production planning in the food industry A macro-enabled Excel workbook to plan manufacturing orders over fifteen days with the live raw material constraint, in a 200-person poultry plant. Case study Planning Dec 4, 2024
Planitools Turning an Excel sales forecasting file into a web app: case study How an overstretched Excel forecasting file became a web application: familiar ergonomics, instant calculations, full change history. Case study Forecasting Dec 4, 2024
Planitools Integrating Excel with an ERP: making both work without double entry What must stay in the ERP, what Excel can handle, four ways to connect them and the pitfalls of double data entry, with an audit method. Planning Scheduling Nov 29, 2024
Planitools ERP implementation in a manufacturing SME: promises and reality What an ERP really brings to a manufacturing SME, what it will not do for planning and forecasting, and seven questions to scope the project. Planning Nov 29, 2024
