Manufacturers choose Scheduling Solutions when scheduling complexity starts limiting growth, delivery performance, and visibility. These are examples of what happens when APS is implemented around the way the plant actually runs.
Featured case study
Morrison Products wanted to replace slow, manual, inconsistent scheduling processes with a single APS approach that could react faster to customer demand, material changes, and day-to-day shop-floor disruptions.
A multi-site manufacturer using QAD ERP, with three plants relying on an unsupported home-grown Excel scheduling system and one plant using Preactor before standardizing on PlanetTogether.
Morrison needed a faster, more reliable way to respond to changing customer requirements, supplier material availability, and daily production disruption across multiple plants.
The evaluation included QAD Scheduler, Siemens Opcenter, and PlanetTogether. PlanetTogether was selected because it met the required scheduling constraints—including materials—and had an established QAD integration path.
Morrison gained more reliable customer ship-date visibility, faster reaction to supply-chain disruption, broader schedule access across work centers, and better information for capacity, tooling, and labor decisions.
What changed
The strongest APS projects create value beyond the scheduling department. They improve delivery confidence, visibility, planning speed, capacity decisions, and the way teams respond when production changes.
Standardized scheduling helped Morrison predict customer ship dates more accurately across its plants.
Planners can react more quickly to material availability changes and other supply-chain disruption.
Work centers gained broader access to scheduling information and a clearer view of what should happen next.
Schedule data became useful for evaluating new equipment, tooling, labor requirements, and process improvements.
What clients say
Clients consistently point to responsiveness, practical implementation support, multi-plant experience, and the ability to keep improving PlanetTogether after the initial rollout.
“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.”
“PlanetTogether has been a valuable tool in scheduling daily operations and evaluating larger questions like additional equipment and labor resources.”
“Scheduling Solutions has been there every step of the way, ensuring we get true value from our investment.”
“They’re supporting multiple plants and helping us roll out PlanetTogether across even more. Their custom development took the system to a whole new level.”
“It’s so much easier working in PlanetTogether rather than our Sage ERP software.”
“Scheduling Solutions implemented PlanetTogether in our multi-plant QAD environment on-time and on-budget.”
Across manufacturing environments
The details vary by industry, but the underlying problem is consistent: too many constraints, too much manual planning, and too little visibility to react confidently when conditions change.
Your success story starts with the scheduling problem
Bring us your current scheduling process, ERP environment, biggest constraints, and the problems your planners fight every day. We’ll help you identify where PlanetTogether, Opcenter, or ScheduleIQ can create measurable value.