In food and beverage, the real cost of a changeover isn’t the changeover — it’s the sequence. Here’s how finite-capacity scheduling wins back the line hours you’re giving away.

You run Optimize. You look at the schedule, something’s off, so you run it again — and get a different answer. You tighten up due-date performance and suddenly your lines are doing cleans they didn’t do yesterday. Your schedulers have quietly stopped trusting the tool and spend half their day dragging jobs around by hand. Then one rush order from a key retailer lands and the whole plan detonates.