Expert Production Planning and Scheduling Consultant

A scheduling consultant analyzes how work orders move through your shop, then helps create a realistic plan for capacity, labor, shifts, setups, routings, and due dates. With OnePlanify, that guidance is supported by Planify’s finite scheduling tools, so planners can move beyond static spreadsheets and test what-if scenarios before committing changes to the live schedule.

A manufacturing scheduler decides when each job should run, which work center it should use, and how operations should be sequenced to meet due dates. They balance machine capacity, setup times, labor availability, material readiness, routing dependencies, and customer priorities. Planify helps schedulers see those constraints clearly and replan quickly when conditions change.

Production planning focuses on what needs to be made, in what quantity, and by when. Production scheduling turns that plan into a time-based sequence of operations across machines, shifts, and work centers. OnePlanify helps bridge both disciplines by connecting demand, routings, capacity, and real shop floor constraints into a schedule planners can maintain.

Planify is built for finite scheduling, which means it respects real capacity instead of assuming every machine and team is available 24/7. It models setups, run times, teardown, move time, shift calendars, and dependencies. That creates a schedule closer to the way the floor actually operates, helping reduce missed handoffs and unrealistic commitments.

Yes. Planify is designed to sit alongside your ERP rather than replace it. It can pull work orders, routings, work-center data, and related production information through CSV, API, or database-read patterns, then use that data to create a constraint-aware schedule. Sequenced operations can also be dispatched back to the floor.

Planify’s small-batch onboarding is designed to avoid long consulting projects. The team helps connect production data, configure routings, work centers, and shift calendars, then run your first finite schedule with you. While timing depends on data readiness and complexity, the goal is to get manufacturers scheduling inside weeks rather than quarters.

Planify includes Run on Pretend mode, which lets planners model a disruption before committing changes. You can see which orders slip, by how much, and what the downstream impact will be. That allows planners to compare multiple responses in minutes and choose the least-damaging schedule adjustment before updating the active board.

Planify is built for manufacturers dealing with setups, shift changes, multi-operation routings, work order dependencies, and frequent disruption. It is especially useful for shop floors where Excel is too fragile and ERP scheduling is too rigid or assumes infinite capacity. Common fits include machine shops, press shops, and complex job shop environments.