JRS recently helped a manufacturing customer go live with online daily production scheduling. The project focused on a high-frequency planning scenario: daily schedule allocation across demand, batches, production objects, and calendar dates.
Before the rollout, planners relied heavily on spreadsheets for splitting quantities, copying schedules, checking totals, and handing results back to the core planning process. The new workspace keeps the familiar table-based planning rhythm while bringing data persistence, validation, and traceability into one online process.
Go-live scope
- Combine multiple sales demands into planning batches and allocate them across daily buckets.
- Plan directly by demand, batch, production object, product, customer, line, and date.
- Support spreadsheet-like interactions such as filtering, copy and paste, column control, weekend hiding, export, and print views.
- Validate planned quantities against demand, inventory receipt, and already-planned quantities, with color-based exception prompts.
- Keep rolling plan versions so monthly schedule changes can be compared with the previous version.
Business value
The go-live gives planners a single controlled workspace instead of scattered offline files. Schedule changes are saved in the system, exceptions can be found earlier, and final daily plans can be synchronized with SAP planned orders according to the agreed integration rules.
For the customer, the value is not only online data entry. It is a more stable planning loop from sales demand, daily production scheduling, exception review, and SAP planned-order update.