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Detailed Scheduling with waySuite –
in Real Time
Detailed scheduling decides every day whether manufacturing orders run on time — amid limited capacities, tight customer deadlines, and frequent disruptions. valantic waySuite is an APS software that automates detailed scheduling in real time, tightly integrated with ERP, material planning, and workforce scheduling. Production planners, SCM managers, and IT directors use it to replace manual Excel-based planning with a continuous, responsive planning process.
Where Detailed Scheduling Fails Today
Challenges for Production Planners, SCM and IT Leaders, and Executives
Manufacturing companies — whether producing single units, series, or high-variant products — face structurally similar challenges in operational detailed scheduling. However, these challenges differ depending on the role within the organization.
Perspective of Production Planners
Manual planning in Excel or basic ERP interfaces leads to error-prone plans that are difficult to update.
Perspective of Production Planners
- Bottlenecks in machines, tools, or qualified staff are identified too late.
- Manual planning in Excel or basic ERP interfaces leads to error-prone plans that are difficult to update.
- New orders, cancellations, or material shortages require time-consuming manual replanning.
- There’s no unified, up-to-date, synchronized planning view across all production areas.
Perspective of SCM and IT Leaders
Detailed scheduling and higher-level sales, material, and procurement planning aren't fully integrated.
Perspective of SCM and IT Leaders
- Detailed scheduling and higher-level sales, material, and procurement planning aren’t fully integrated.
- System breaks between ERP, the detailed scheduling system, and the shop floor lead to data delays and planning gaps.
- Delivery date commitments to customers are only partially reliable, since ATP/CTP checks aren’t automated.
- Planning data from different departments is inconsistent or contradictory.
Perspective of Executives
Delivery delays lead to contractual penalties, customer loss, or increased communication overhead.
Perspective of Executives
- Delivery delays lead to contractual penalties, customer loss, or increased communication overhead.
- Capacity is used inefficiently because planning is only coordinated, not optimized.
- Excess inventory and short-term procurement measures arise from a lack of planning transparency.
- Scaling production (new plants, product variety, supplier networks) is unmanageable without digital detailed scheduling.
How waySuite Supports Your Detailed Scheduling
valantic waySuite is an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system that automatically schedules manufacturing orders against resources — machines, workstations, tools, and personnel — while taking all relevant constraints into account in real time.
waySuite makes it possible to efficiently and automatically schedule the entire order landscape — backlog, capacity, customer deadlines, and delays. Planning results are available instantly, with no waiting time for the planner. Single-unit, series, and high-variant manufacturers can all be optimized equally.
waySuite optimizes order sequences based on delivery dates, priorities, setup times, and capacity limits — supported by AI algorithms. Planning managers can analyze the results in detail and adjust them manually as needed. The solution supports both fully automated and interactive planning approaches.
For realistic delivery date commitments, ATP (Available-to-Promise) and CTP (Capable-to-Promise) checks can be performed in real time with waySuite. This enables reliable commitments to customers already at order intake — without downstream manual coordination.
waySuite features a certified SAP interface (public and private cloud). Master data, manufacturing orders, material requirements, and confirmations are synchronized bidirectionally. waySuite handles all planning activities and passes the results back to the leading SAP system.
Recurring planning tasks — such as releasing new orders, managing capacity bottlenecks, or automatically adjusting for disruption alerts — can be automated in waySuite using AI algorithms. This frees planning managers from repetitive tasks so they can focus on exception handling and strategic decisions.
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Measurable Impact in Practice
The following results are regularly reported by waySuite users.
Reduced Planning Effort
Simple planning tasks are automated, freeing planners to focus on exceptions.
Better Resource Utilization
Bottlenecks and underutilization are identified early, allowing capacity to be used more effectively.
Greater Planning Transparency
All planning stakeholders — production, SCM, sales — work from a shared, up-to-date planning view with meaningful dashboards.
Faster Response to Disruptions
Planning changes (new orders, machine breakdowns, delivery delays) are processed in real time and immediately rescheduled.
Reliable Delivery Date Commitments
ATP/CTP checks provide customers and sales teams with dependable delivery commitments already at order intake.
Take a Look Inside the Software All planning areas, one software interface.
Compare different planning scenarios before making a decision. What-if analyses provide confidence in complex planning situations.
Learn moreWhy Production Planning Alone Isn't Enough
| Production Planning | Detailed Scheduling |
|---|---|
| Medium-term horizon (weeks/months) | Short-term horizon (hours/days/weeks) |
| Master production scheduling | Order and sequence planning |
| Rough-cut capacity balancing | Detailed capacity allocation per resource |
| Often embedded in ERP | Requires an APS system |
| Output: production program | Output: detailed production schedule |
What Our Customers Say
The Grenzebach Group is an internationally operating family business specializing in plant engineering and automation technology.
Together with valantic, the company implemented a cross-site, cross-functional planning solution for connected control of all its value-creation processes. Built on valantic waySuite, the solution improves planning reliability and control for every business unit and site involved. More about the project: Grenzebach plant und steuert Supply Chain Prozesse mit der waySuite
We are very happy to have chosen valantic as an experienced project partner. Together with valantic, we largely achieved all the goals we set for this project
Moritz Ückert, Vice President Supply Chain at Grenzebach
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Agile Project and Production Planning in the Maritime Industry3/5
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Shorter Throughput Times, Leaner Inventory, Stronger Margins:
Rapid, Dependable, and Profitable — Built with waySuite APS Software
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FAQ About valantic waySuite as a Detailed Scheduling Software
Detailed scheduling refers to the operational, short-term planning of manufacturing orders against specific resources — machines, workstations, personnel, and tools — taking real capacity limits, sequence dependencies, and material availability into account. It’s the most granular planning level in production and delivers the concrete production schedule for the shop floor.
Production planning operates at a tactical, medium-term level: it determines what should be produced, in what quantity, and when. Detailed scheduling goes one level deeper, planning exactly when, where, and in what sequence an order is processed at which workstation.
An Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system is specialized planning software that optimally schedules manufacturing orders based on capacity, material availability, qualifications, and sequence dependencies. APS systems typically operate in real time, complementing the ERP system with a powerful detailed scheduling layer. valantic waySuite is a real-time APS solution.
waySuite features a certified SAP interface (private and public cloud). Manufacturing orders, master data, material requirements, and confirmations are synchronized bidirectionally.
waySuite uses AI algorithms to automatically optimize manufacturing sequences, automatically schedule new orders, and take over regular, recurring planning tasks. This frees up planning managers to focus on exceptions and strategic decisions.