We make PlanetTogether fit your plant, your ERP, and the way your schedulers actually work.
They fail because the routings didn’t reflect how the line really runs. Because setup times were averages. Because two departments optimized against rules that quietly contradicted each other. Because the ERP handed over data the scheduler didn’t trust, so within a month everyone was back in the spreadsheet.
PlanetTogether — now part of CAI Software — is a capable engine. Whether it earns its keep depends almost entirely on the work around it: the data, the constraints, the integration, and whether the person running it on a Tuesday morning understands what it just decided and why.
That work is what we do.
The whole plan across resources and time, drag-adjustable, with the downstream consequences of a change visible before you commit it.
Machines, labour, tooling, materials and changeover rules treated as real limits — not infinite-capacity assumptions your ERP quietly makes.
Model the rush order, the machine down for two shifts, the expedite — against a copy of the live schedule, before anything reaches the floor.
Capacity and demand across sites in one model, so work lands where it can actually run instead of where it was always sent.
Sequence-dependent setup — by colour, allergen, grade, pack size — so the schedule stops paying for avoidable washdowns.
Utilization, late orders, setup cost, WIP and schedule span, measured off the plan itself rather than assembled afterwards in Excel.
A scheduling engine is only as good as what your ERP hands it, and how cleanly the answer goes back. Getting orders, routings, inventory and capacity flowing in both directions — reliably, on a cadence the plant can trust — is the part that takes real experience.
We’ve built and maintained those connections across every major platform our clients run:
Where the standard connector doesn’t reach, we write the extension. Custom integration work is a normal part of what we do, not an escalation.
We walk the floor and read your data. What’s actually constraining output, how routings differ from reality, where setup time really goes, and what your ERP can and can’t give us. You get a straight answer on scope before anyone signs anything.
Resources, calendars, attributes and changeover rules built to match how the plant runs — then tested against schedules you already know the answer to, so you can see the model is right before you rely on it.
The ERP connection built, scheduled and monitored, with the failure modes handled — because the integration that breaks quietly at 2am is the one that ends adoption.
Training aimed at your schedulers, not your IT department. The measure of success is whether the person running the plan next quarter can explain what the system decided and adjust it without calling us.
Full APS earns its cost when you have real sequencing complexity — sequence-dependent changeovers, multi-stage flow, shared constraints across lines or plants. If your scheduling pain is mostly visibility and dispatch, a full implementation is more than you need.
That’s why we built ScheduleIQ — finite scheduling without the implementation project. We’d rather point you at the right size of tool than sell you the bigger one.
“We’re running PlanetTogether in four of our plants, and it’s made a big impact. Scheduling Solutions has been awesome — super helpful and responsive. The rollout went smooth, and the system just works.”
Steve RenzPlant Manager, Morrison Products
“Scheduling Solutions implemented PlanetTogether in our multi-plant QAD environment on-time and on-budget. I would recommend them to any manufacturer implementing Advanced Planning and Scheduling software.”
Scott TriplettProduction Planning Specialist, Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing
It depends far more on your data than on the software. A single plant with clean routings and a standard ERP connector moves quickly; multi-plant with sequence-dependent changeovers and a custom integration takes longer. We give you a scoped answer after the assessment rather than a number on a website.
No — but you do need to know how bad it is. Assessing routing and setup-time accuracy is part of phase one, and where the data won’t support finite scheduling we tell you what has to change before the schedule can be trusted.
That’s a common call, and often a faster project than a fresh implementation. Usually the model doesn’t match how the plant runs, the integration has drifted, or the schedulers were never trained on the reasoning. All three are fixable.
Not operationally. CAI acquired PlanetTogether in June 2026 and the product continues to be sold and supported as a standalone, with CAI committing further investment in development. Existing licences, integrations and roadmaps carry on. We remain a certified implementation partner, and our support for your deployment is unchanged.
Yes — SAP↔PlanetTogether integration is one of the things we’re known for, alongside QAD. Where the standard connector doesn’t cover a requirement, we build the extension.
Yes. Multi-plant capacity coordination is one of the strongest reasons to run PlanetTogether rather than a single-site tool, and several of our clients run it across four or more plants.
A short conversation with someone who has implemented this 150 times — not a discovery call with a sales rep.
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