Sequence proposal
Builds each work center's sequence with blocked jobs and projected lates listed.
Roles
Production Planner
a manufacturing professional who schedules production work, balancing due dates, materials, machines and labor to keep orders on time
Your job, minus the screen work
You decide what the plant builds next, whether overtime is worth buying, and when to restock items before the shelf empties. Then the day changes the plan. The prep work behind every reshuffle is pure screen time.
Where your week goes
ERP
- Exporting queues every morning and pasting them into the scheduling sheet
- Looking up who is qualified and next in line for overtime
MES
- Checking material status job by job before sequencing
- Scanning stocked items for low balances, when there is time
Excel
- Retyping the sequence into the ERP or MES
Timekeeping
- Building the overtime sheet from timekeeping exports
→ the board
What an agent takes over
Dispatch list
Posts and publishes the list once you approve it.
Overtime case
Shows hours, cost, alternatives and eligible operators in order.
Replenishment
Proposes make-to-stock orders, stockout risks first.
Late alerts
Tells customer service before the ship date passes, not after.
What stays with you
-
Which customer waits when capacity is short
-
Pinning jobs for reasons the data does not show
-
Approving overtime and negotiating dates with sales
-
Walking the floor and rebuilding the day after a breakdown
Apps you already juggle
ERP, MES, shop-floor terminals, barcode scanners, BI dashboards, supplier and customer portals, Excel, Teams and Outlook.
- ERP
- MES
- shop-floor terminals
- barcode scanners
- BI dashboards
- supplier and customer portals
- Excel
- Teams
- Outlook
A week, before and after
Before
- Mornings spent copying queues
- Overtime built by hand
- Late jobs reported after the fact
After
- A proposed sequence waiting each shift
- An overtime recommendation ready to approve
- Replenishment proposals sorted by risk
- More time on the floor and at the bottleneck
See every workflow for your role
See all 74 planning and shop-floor workflows a planner touches.
Production Planner workflow catalog 74 manufacturingNo prompts. No babysitting. No Integrations.