Fast Planning turns your forecast or sales plan into a costed, netted, scheduled batch plan — a master process sheet for every grade, MRP that nets demand against stock and open supply, a reorder-level dashboard that auto-suggests purchase requisitions, and batches sequenced on a DayPilot Gantt. Make-to-order and make-to-stock in one run — for manufacturers of every kind, cloud or on-premise, across India and worldwide.
Demand sits in a spreadsheet; nobody nets it against stock and open orders. So you re-make grades you already hold and run short on the ones you don't.
Resin, solvent and packaging get ordered when the batch is already on the reactor. Reorder points live in someone's head, so a stock-out stops the run.
The same reactor or mixing line has competing batches, and the run order is decided verbally — then re-decided every shift when a hot order jumps the queue.
Some grades are built to a customer order, others replenished to stock. Two spreadsheets, two plans — and the same drum of raw material counted twice.
Every stage of a planning run in Fast Planning is a real document on the shared platform — the same item master, BOM and stock that Fast Production and Fast Inventory use. Demand is exploded, netted, split into buy and make, then scheduled — with the reorder dashboard replenishing continuously between runs.
A planning run has a predictable shape — capture demand, explode it, net it, split it, then sequence and replenish. Every question a planner asks is answered by a record the run already produced.
A batch grade is a recipe with a routing. Fast Planning holds a Master Process Sheet for batch production — the list of operations and activities, the standard cost for each, the standard cycle and setting times, and the sequence they run in. When a batch is planned, that master is copied into an order process sheet where you modify times, re-sequence activities and reassign machines for the specific run. See Process Sheets & Routing for the full model.
This is the classic MRP calculation, done for every level of the recipe: net requirement = gross demand − stock on hand − open supply (open purchase orders + open work orders + reserved stock). Plan make-to-stock grades to a forecast or sales plan using the plan-with-stock sub-type, reserve inventory to a plan so two runs don't double-count the same drum, and let what's still short fall out as buy or make. See MRP — BOM explosion & netting.
Between formal planning cycles, the Reorder-Level Dashboard watches each item's free stock against its reorder level — reorder level and lead time are planning parameters on the item master — and lists everything that has fallen below, suggesting a Purchase Requisition for each. It is the day-to-day safety net that catches a solvent or packaging shortage before it stalls a batch. The PR flows straight to purchasing through Fast Production, Inventory & Purchase.
Once Work Orders exist they are sequenced. Set and re-sequence order and resource priority, then lay the batches out on a DayPilot Gantt scheduler board. Machine-loading reports show the daily load and percentage loading on each reactor, mixer or filling line, plus the projected availability on pending work — so a hot order finds a real slot instead of jumping the queue by shouting. See Scheduling & Priority and Machine Loading & Capacity.
Dhruv AI is Improsys's own analytics layer over the plan — planning role dashboards, AI insight summaries on load, plan-vs-actual and utilization, and plain-English questions turned into safe, read-only queries over whitelisted views. Ask which grades are behind plan, which reactor is the bottleneck, or which raw materials keep hitting reorder — and read plan-vs-actual and OEE on the same screens. See Dhruv AI Planning Analytics and Plan vs Actual & OEE.
Operations and activities for a grade, with standard cost, standard cycle and setting time and sequence — copied to an order process sheet and tuned per run.
Explode each grade through the BOM and net every level against stock, open POs, open WOs and reserved stock — split into buy and make.
Demand from a forecast for make-to-stock grades or confirmed orders for make-to-order ones, using the plan-with-stock sub-type in one coordinated run.
A live dashboard watching free stock against reorder level and lead time, suggesting a Purchase Requisition for every item that falls below, between runs.
Daily load and percentage loading on each reactor, mixer or line, plus projected availability on pending work — so batches are planned to real capacity.
Order and resource priority, sequenced and re-sequenced on a DayPilot Gantt scheduler board so competing batches share a resource in a clear order.
Yes. A Master Process Sheet for batch production defines the operations and activities, standard cost, standard cycle and setting times and their sequence — copied into an order process sheet and tuned per run.
The Sales Plan (a forecast, plan-with-stock) explodes through the BOM; each level nets to gross demand minus stock on hand minus open supply — open POs, open WOs and reserved stock.
It watches each item's free stock against its reorder level and lead time and suggests a Purchase Requisition for everything below — a continuous safety net between formal MRP runs.
Yes. Work Orders are sequenced by order and resource priority and laid out on a DayPilot Gantt, with machine-loading reports showing daily load and projected availability per resource.
Yes — the common batch-plant case. Build-to-order grades and stocked grades are netted together in one run against the same live inventory, so a drum of resin is never counted twice.
Plastics and masterbatch, chemicals, paints and coatings and other batch process plants — and, more broadly, manufacturers of every kind, cloud or on-premise, across India and worldwide.
Plan against confirmed customer orders and their exploded, per-order BOMs, from Sales Plan through to Work Order and purchase.
Learn moreFinite machine loading and Gantt scheduling for job-work shops, sequencing operations across machines by priority and capacity.
Learn moreCycle-time driven capacity planning, plan-vs-actual, utilization and OEE for high-volume component manufacturers.
Learn moreThe engine behind every plan — explode demand through the BOM, net against stock and open supply, and split into buy and make.
See the featureA 30-minute demo — we take one of your real grades through Sales Plan, BOM explosion, netting, batch Work Order and the reorder dashboard, make-to-order and make-to-stock together.
