Food doesn't wait. Your schedule can't either.
Allergen changeovers, sanitation windows, perishable materials, and demand that swings overnight — food manufacturing breaks the schedules that work everywhere else. PlanetTogether builds the finite-capacity plan that respects every one of those constraints. ScheduleIQ puts it on the floor and keeps it there as the shift changes.
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A live food line in ScheduleIQ — fillers, mixers, and packaging sequenced by resource, straight from PlanetTogether.
The food floor plays by different rules.
In most plants a job can wait. On a food line, waiting spoils material, misses a sanitation window, or runs an allergen in the wrong order. The plan has to respect constraints a generic scheduler never sees — and it has to hold up when the floor changes mid-shift.
Changeovers eat your capacity
Setups are sequence-dependent. Run products in the wrong order and you pay for a full washdown or CIP instead of a quick swap — hours of line time lost every day to avoidable cleandowns.
Allergen & sanitation can't flex
Allergen-free has to run before allergen-containing, with sanitation in between and an auditable record to prove it. A mis-sequenced run isn't just waste — it's a contamination and recall risk.
Demand swings overnight
A promotion, a season, or a big retail order can push a line to 2–3× volume with little warning. A spreadsheet can't re-plan finite capacity fast enough to protect your delivery dates.
Perishable inputs, hard due dates
Raw materials and finished goods are on the clock. Batch timing has to line up with shelf life and storage, and orders using soon-to-expire material have to move first — or it's written off.
A finite-capacity plan the food floor can actually run.
PlanetTogether's Advanced Planning & Scheduling models your real constraints — not a spreadsheet's wishful math — and builds a sequence that protects both capacity and compliance.
- Sequence-dependent changeover optimization. Groups products by shared allergens and orders runs allergen-free to allergen-containing, cutting full washdowns and reclaiming line hours.
- Shelf-life & expiry aware. Prioritizes orders that consume soon-to-expire materials and aligns batch timing with shelf life and storage — before it spoils.
- Real constraints, modeled. Cooling and proof times, oven and line capacity, batch sizes, item compatibility, and specialized labor — all respected in one schedule.
- What-if for demand surges. Model a 2–3× spike, extra shifts, or a new promotion months ahead and see the impact before it hits the floor.
The plan respects freshness and compliance
Every sequence PlanetTogether builds already accounts for allergen order, sanitation windows, and material expiry — so the plan your floor receives is one it can run safely, not one it has to fight.
- Fewer cleandowns, more run time
- Auditable allergen sequencing
- Less spoilage and safety stock
ScheduleIQ puts that plan on the floor — and keeps it there.
The best plan is worthless if the floor can't see it or react when reality changes. ScheduleIQ reads your live PlanetTogether schedule and turns it into a dispatch board your supervisors run the shift on — with an AI layer watching for what's about to go wrong.
A live dispatch board by line
Today's runs by resource — filler, mixer, packaging — with op status color-coded as the floor logs progress.
AI flags what needs attention
Late-risk orders, the most-loaded line, and material demand — surfaced before they cost you a delivery.
Ask the schedule in plain English.
- Predictive on-time risk. Every order scored for late risk straight from the live schedule — slips surface days early.
- Plain-English Schedule Assistant. "Which line is most overloaded?" answered from your real data — no reports to build.
- Log shop-floor status. Mark runs started, in setup, or complete and clear material blocks — the board reflects the floor in real time.
- React without re-planning. Line down, tanker late, rush order? Resequence the day without touching the PlanetTogether master plan.
Plan once. Run every shift.
Your planners keep planning where they always have. Your floor finally gets a place to execute — and react — without breaking the master plan.
Plan in PlanetTogether
APS builds the finite-capacity schedule — allergen sequencing, shelf life, changeovers, and capacity all accounted for.
FINITE-CAPACITY APSPublish to ScheduleIQ
The day's schedule flows in automatically — runs, sequence, and quantities, grouped by line and resource. No re-keying.
ZERO RE-KEYINGRun the shift
Supervisors dispatch, log status, and clear blockers as the shift unfolds — with AI flagging risk before it lands.
THE DISPATCH BOARDThe Most Expensive Ten Minutes on Your Food Line →
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See it on your own lines.
Bring your allergen matrix, your changeover pain, and your worst demand week. We'll show you the plan PlanetTogether builds and the board ScheduleIQ runs it on.
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