When out-of-the-box APS stops short, we extend it. Scheduling Solutions builds custom logic, automation, integrations, alerts, dashboards, and workflow enhancements around the way your plant actually runs.
What we extend
Custom extensions bridge the gap between standard APS functionality and the unique logic, workflows, systems, and decisions that make your manufacturing environment different.
Add sequencing rules, constraint logic, dynamic priorities, customer-specific rules, campaign logic, changeover behavior, and other scheduling intelligence that goes beyond standard configuration.
Eliminate repetitive planner work by automating data preparation, scheduling actions, updates, calculations, exception handling, and recurring planning workflows.
Extend the data flow between PlanetTogether and SAP, QAD, Microsoft Dynamics, Epicor, Oracle, Infor, MES, WMS, SQL databases, shop-floor systems, and purpose-built applications.
Surface the information planners and operations teams need through custom dashboards, exception alerts, status indicators, notifications, workflow steps, and decision-support tools.
Extension examples
We can extend PlanetTogether at the logic, integration, workflow, and user-experience layers while keeping the core platform intact.
Dynamic prioritization and custom decision logic based on customer, order, resource, material, or business conditions.
Sequence jobs around product families, setup matrices, allergens, tooling, campaigns, labor, or other real-world constraints.
Automate repetitive scheduling steps, recurring calculations, data preparation, schedule publishing, and exception handling.
Expose schedule health, utilization, late risk, bottlenecks, adherence, throughput, and other plant-specific metrics.
Notify planners when materials, capacity, due dates, downtime, or other conditions threaten execution.
Build lightweight tools, interfaces, portals, and utilities that extend scheduling information to other users and systems.
Business impact
The best custom extensions are not features for their own sake. They remove friction from the scheduling process and help your team act faster when production conditions change.
Align schedules with the priorities, constraints, and operating rules that determine which orders truly need attention first.
Automate repetitive tasks and recurring decisions so planners can focus on exceptions and higher-value scheduling work.
Improve scheduling outcomes with better data, tighter system integration, and rules that reflect how the plant actually operates.
React faster to demand swings, downtime, labor constraints, material shortages, priority changes, and other disruptions.
How we build extensions
We define the business behavior first, then design the smallest, cleanest extension that solves it. That keeps the solution easier to support, test, and upgrade.
Document the scheduling challenge, current workaround, desired behavior, and measurable outcome.
Determine whether the best answer is configuration, custom logic, API integration, automation, or a supporting application.
Develop against real scheduling scenarios and validate both functional behavior and performance with your team.
Move the extension into production with documentation, testing, user training, and ongoing support as requirements evolve.
Built for performance & upgradability
Our goal is to create extensions that are clean, maintainable, high-performing, and compatible with future upgrades. We use PlanetTogether's available integration and API framework where appropriate and separate custom logic from the core system whenever practical.
That means you can solve unique scheduling problems without turning every software upgrade into a redevelopment project.
APS expertise behind the code
The value of a custom extension depends on understanding both the technology and the scheduling problem. Our team brings deep APS implementation, integration, and manufacturing experience to both sides.
Extend what already works
Show us the scheduling challenge, manual workaround, integration gap, or process you wish PlanetTogether handled differently. We'll help determine the cleanest path to extend it.