Every one of these came from a real conversation with a plant. Nothing here is a sales script — if the honest answer is “it depends,” we say what it depends on.
What the first few months actually look like, and what they ask of your team.
Plan for four months or more. We scope the timeline against your plant’s complexity rather than quoting a standard package — and we would rather set that expectation honestly at the start than have you find it out halfway through.
What moves the number is rarely the software. It is how clean your routings are, how many real constraints have to be modelled before the schedule is believable, and how quickly we can get accurate data out of your ERP. Plants that already know their setup times move fastest.
Yes. We integrate with SAP, QAD, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and other leading systems.
In practice that means orders, routings, inventory and capacity flow out of your ERP into the scheduling engine, and the finished schedule flows back so the shop floor and the office are working from the same plan. ERP integration is the part most implementations underestimate; it is the part we do most often.
No. We plan around your production schedule, not the other way round.
The new schedule runs alongside how you work today until your planners trust what it is telling them. Nobody is asked to switch off the current process on a Monday morning and hope.
Yes. We can scope a pilot — typically one line, one cell or one plant — to prove the value before a full rollout.
A pilot also tells you something a demo cannot: whether your data is ready, and whether your planners will actually work this way.
Who runs this once we have gone, and what happens when something breaks.
No. The software is built to be run by planners, not by IT.
You will want someone who owns the schedule — that is a planning role, not a technical one — and we stay available so your internal resources are not stretched to cover the gaps.
This is the question that decides whether an implementation succeeds, and it is worth asking hard.
Adoption fails when the schedule tells people something they know to be wrong. That is why we spend the time on constraints and data up front: a plan that matches how the line really runs gets used. One that does not gets quietly replaced by a spreadsheet within a month.
Minimal for the people running the daily schedule. We deliver hands-on training against your own data rather than a generic demo set, so the first schedule your planners build is a real one.
Personalised team training, written documentation for your configuration, and ongoing support afterwards.
Training is scoped by role — planners, supervisors and management need different things from the same system.
Dedicated support through implementation, and continued access to our team afterwards for optimisation, troubleshooting and training.
Support does not end at launch. Plants change — new equipment, new products, new constraints — and a schedule that is not maintained drifts out of trust. We stay engaged so the system keeps earning its place.
The operational questions — what actually improves, and by what mechanism.
Clients typically see a significant improvement in OTIF (On-Time, In-Full) after implementation.
The mechanism is simple enough: when the plan respects real capacity and real setup times, promised dates stop being optimistic guesses. Most late orders are not caused by slow production — they are caused by a plan that was never achievable.
The scheduling engine reschedules in real time, so you can see the consequence of taking the rush order before you commit to it — what moves, what slips, and what it costs you elsewhere.
That is the difference between responding to change and absorbing chaos.
Yes. Sequencing is where most of the hidden cost sits.
Optimising the order in which jobs run — grouping compatible products, minimising washdowns and tooling swaps — cuts changeover time and idle time without anyone working faster.
Yes. Better scheduling reduces inefficiencies, overtime and unplanned labour spikes.
Overtime is usually the symptom of a plan that fell apart mid-week. Fix the plan and much of the premium labour disappears on its own.
Yes. The system models machine dependencies, sequence-dependent setups, shared resources, labour and tooling constraints — the things that make your plant harder to schedule than a textbook.
Complexity is the reason to do this. Simple plants can get by on a spreadsheet.
Real-time visibility, automatic updates, and genuine optimisation rather than manual sequencing.
A spreadsheet is a snapshot that is wrong the moment a machine goes down. It also lives in one person’s head — which becomes a serious problem the week they are on holiday.
How this grows with you, and how it is paid for.
Yes. New lines, shifts, products or locations can be added without rebuilding the model you started from.
Yes. PlanetTogether is specifically designed for multi-plant implementations — centralised visibility, coordinated scheduling and standardised planning processes across the whole organisation.
It also means one plant’s decisions stop being invisible to the next one down the supply chain.
PlanetTogether is subscription pricing. Implementation and any custom work are quoted separately.
Bring us the specific one about your plant. A free assessment is a conversation, not a demo — we will tell you if this is not the right fit.
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