CMO planning software for shared lines and moving orders
When clients share your lines, one moved date changes everyone’s week. PLAIO schedules every client’s orders on one Gantt, checks each job against changeovers and materials, and flags the late order while you can still fix it.
See a week of your client orders scheduled
30 minutes with PLAIO. Bring a week of orders and the schedule you run today, spreadsheet or whiteboard.
Leading pharmaceutical companies
On a shared line, every client’s change is your problem
A rush order for one client pushes another client’s batch. Late packaging stalls a third. The schedule is usually a spreadsheet that one person knows how to change, and they rebuild the week by hand.
The rules are simple one at a time. Across six lines and a week of orders, nobody can check them by eye.
A tablet after a cream needs changeover time on the blender. Granulation has to start within a set window after dispensing. On Thursday a calibration check takes a line out.
Miss one of those and the conflict turns up on the shop floor, or when a client calls to ask where their batch is.
Why it matters:
Clients pay for the delivery date. A clash found at your desk on Monday costs a few minutes. Found on the floor on Tuesday, it can cost a batch or a delivery date.
What a CMO schedule gets in PLAIO
Firm POs and forecasts in one plan
Each client’s open orders sit next to their forecast, month by month. Group the plan by client and you see how much of next quarter is already firm.
Weigh changeovers against late days
Changeover times depend on what ran before, and you set them per line. Every job shows its changeover, setup, run and cleaning time. The optimizer saves schedule alternatives that trade late orders against changeover time. You keep the one that suits the week.
Each client’s materials checked
Components and packaging sit in each product’s bill of materials and arrive on lanes with their own lead time and MOQ. When the plan has no material for a job, or it won’t be there in time, the job is flagged.
How contract manufacturing scheduling works in PLAIO
Orders become jobs on named lines
A production order has an item, a quantity and a delivery date. Schedule it and you get a job for each routing step, on a named line with a start and stop time. Auto Schedule places the orders you pick around shifts and downtime.
Every job checked against the floor
PLAIO checks setup, run and cleaning times on each line, changeovers that depend on what ran before, waits between steps and the shift calendar. A job that breaks a rule shows up as an exception.
Client changes go into a draft
When a client moves a date, drag the jobs or try the change in a draft scenario next to the published schedule. The floor keeps working from the published one until you publish.
Hold line time for a client
With the optional Reservations module you block line time for a product family, such as one client’s products. Auto Schedule fills the block with matching orders and flags it if it is overbooked.
Put a week of client orders on the Gantt
30 minutes on your own lines and clients. See which delivery is at risk while the week can still change.
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