The module is too heavy to trust
Infinite capacity, missing setup time, or a sequence nobody on the floor believes. People export the open orders and rebuild the week by hand.
Exact Apps / Production scheduling
Job shops · machine shops · fabrication
Abandoned your ERP scheduling module? Keep the ERP. Send the sheet.
Keep your ERP. Replace the spreadsheet.
JobBOSS, Epicor, Global Shop, and the rest already hold the jobs. The week still lives in Excel because the scheduling screen isn’t trusted. Send this week’s open-order export (or the spreadsheet you actually run from). In 24 hours we’ll show rush-order impact on your machines — without replacing your system of record.
Built for shops that already own an ERP and still build the week in Excel or on a whiteboard.
Not ready? Grab the free job shop schedule template.
Production scheduleWeek of Mar 16
2 lateWeld cell conflict WednesdayShop capacity 86%
MonTueWedThuFri
Haas VF-2
Mazak QT
Weld cell
Saw
Inserting 1901 on Wednesday pushes 1766 to Thursday and overloads the weld cell unless 1710 moves to second shift.
The usual week
You already bought scheduling. The floor still runs Excel.
A manufacturing schedule board only works if it knows capacity. Due dates alone just sort a list. The spreadsheet becomes the real system because it is the only place someone put machines, setup, and the rush job in the same view.
One person is the schedule
If that supervisor is in a meeting, nobody knows whether the Haas is free Thursday or which job is already late.
Rush orders are a negotiation
A text says "this has to ship Friday." The spreadsheet gets edited. Three other jobs slip, and the customer promise was already made.
What the schedule is made of
From open orders to a week you can defend.
We can import from spreadsheets or connect with the systems you already use. A named ERP connection is only promised after we have seen how your orders actually leave that system.
What goes in
- Open orders and jobs
- Due dates and priority
- Routing and operations
- Machine or work-center requirements
- Run time and setup time
- People, shifts, and machine capacity
- Dependencies between operations
- Material availability, when you track it
What comes out
- A schedule that respects capacity
- Machine and work-center calendars
- Conflicts when two jobs want the same resource
- Late-job warnings
- The bottleneck, not a vague "we're busy"
- Drag-and-drop changes
- What a rush order moves
- Estimated completion, plus a daily and weekly view
Rush order 1901 · ship FridayCompared with the current week
- Saw blanksMoves to Wednesday morning
- Haas VF-2Takes the Wednesday slot from 1766
- Job 1766 housingFinishes Thursday, still on time
- Weld cellOver capacity Wednesday unless 1710 moves to second shift
- Job 1710 frameAlready late. Stays late if it does not move.
Where this sits
A scheduling layer, not a new ERP.
Keep the system that already holds the order, the quote, and the invoice. The production schedule is the workflow those systems often do badly for a 10- to 80-person shop. That is the piece we build.
What we need from you
The spreadsheet, a photo of the whiteboard, or an export of open jobs. If the routing lives in someone's notebook, send that too. The prototype is a schedule built from your work, not a tour of manufacturing software.
Questions from the floor
Before you send the spreadsheet
Does this replace our ERP or MRP?
No. If the ERP is where orders and costs belong, leave them there. This replaces the production scheduling spreadsheet, the whiteboard, or the schedule that only exists in one person's head.
Our ERP already has scheduling. Why isn't the floor using it?
Usually because it ignores setup, assumes infinite capacity, or takes longer to update than editing the sheet. We build the view people will open on Monday morning.
Can you load the Excel production schedule we use now?
Yes. That file is the best brief we can get. Import first. A connection to another system comes after we see the export you already trust.
Is this finite-capacity planning or just a calendar?
Both the calendar and the constraint. A board that lets you drop jobs onto machines without knowing hours and shifts is another whiteboard. Capacity, conflicts, and late jobs are the point.
What about material?
If a job cannot start because material is missing, the schedule should say so. If you do not track that yet, we do not invent a warehouse system to get the week under control.
How does a prototype work?
Send the scheduling sheet or a description of how the week gets built. Within 24 hours you get a schedule based on that process. You are not buying a manufacturing suite.
Show us the sheet
Show us the process you use to build the week.
A spreadsheet, a screenshot of the board, or a short note on how a rush order gets squeezed in. We'll show you what replacing that schedule could look like.
The schedule is in.
We'll send a prototype of this production week within 24 hours.
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