Advanced planning and scheduling software for pharma
Schedule the shop floor from the same orders as your supply plan. The Capacity Plan shows each line's load by month, so you know which lines can take more.
See your own lines planned and scheduled
30 minutes with our team. Bring a few SKUs and the spreadsheet you schedule in today.
Leading pharmaceutical companies
Plan and schedule on one set of orders
Your schedule starts from the orders your supply plan already made, so nobody re-keys them. In PLAIO, the Capacity Plan loads your firm orders and order suggestions, and the shop floor schedules those production orders.
Jobs land where a line can run them
Auto Schedule places the orders you pick only where a line can take them. It reads the lines each step can run on, with setup, run and cleaning times. It adds the changeover for each product pair, and each line's shifts and downtime.
If a job sits too close to the one before it, PLAIO flags it Not Enough Changeover. The draft shows the line and the time.
Why it matters:
The planner moves the job while the week is still a draft.
What changes for your planners
Size orders to each lane
Order suggestions come out ready to place, sized to each lane's MOQ and order increment, inside its lead time and frozen period. You approve them before anything reaches the ERP.
Check line capacity by month
See which line runs hot in March while you can still move volume. The Capacity Plan counts firm orders and order suggestions against each resource, for every month.
Schedule in draft scenarios
Try next week as a draft beside the published schedule, and compare it with versions from Generate Scenario Alternatives. The floor sees a scenario only when you publish it.
From demand to the shop-floor schedule
Demand
The supply plan runs against your demand plan, by item, location and month. When the demand plan changes, the next supply run picks it up.
Supply
Supply planning nets demand against stock, open orders and safety stock across the network. Its order suggestions respect each lane's lead time, MOQ and increment, and the minimum remaining shelf life each market accepts.
Production
The Capacity Plan loads those orders onto each resource by month. The shop-floor schedule then places production orders job by job, around routings, changeovers, waits, shifts and downtime. A job that breaks a rule gets an exception.
See your SKUs scheduled on your lines
In 30 minutes we take a few of your products from the supply plan to a draft schedule on your lines.
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