Orders, Planning & Capacity
Approved cases become orders, line items and routings. secondFactory connects deadlines, personnel, machines, shifts, skills, target times, priorities, material requirements and actual progress in a shared planning model.
Today, plans are made in spreadsheets and in people’s heads.
Deadlines, personnel, machines and material are planned separately. When something changes, people update records, make phone calls and reshuffle – and the plan no longer matches the actual situation.
- Creating orders and routings by hand
- Looking at personnel and machine capacity separately
- Noticing conflicts only during execution
- Overwriting changes instead of documenting them
- Estimating completion dates instead of deriving them from actuals
What the module covers.
Order & project planning
Plan orders, line items, routings, milestones and dependencies.
Calendar & Gantt
Display days, weeks, months and annual planning with plan vs. actual and rescheduling.
Capacity matrix
Compare employees, skills, machines, shifts, workstations and demand.
Assignment & handover
Distribute work, check conflicts in advance, track handovers and status.
Changes & complaints
Document changes with decision and implementation instead of overwriting them.
Forecasts
Derive order situation, plan vs. actual and expected completion from current data.
From intake to a controlled result.
This is where your team reviews and decides.
secondFactory prepares. At these points, a person confirms, corrects or deliberately approves – nothing slips through unnoticed.
Confirm routing
Routings and mandatory steps are reviewed before the order is approved.
Decide on conflicts
The system makes blocks and warnings visible – planning decides how a conflict is resolved.
Approve changes
Changes and complaints are documented with decision and implementation, not silently overwritten.
What improves day to day.
Fewer Excel silos
Planning and operational feedback interlock.
More realistic capacity
Take qualifications, shifts and machines into account.
Clear responsibility
Assignments and decisions remain traceable.
What goes in. What comes out.
Input sources
- Approved cases and quotes
- Line items and quantities
- Personnel, shifts and skills
- Machines and workstations
- Material requirements
- Actual progress from production
Results
- Orders with line items and routings
- Calendar and Gantt planning with plan vs. actual
- Capacity matrix
- Assignments and handovers
- Completion forecast
Handovers without re-entry.
Quote and approval
Approved cases from Inquiry & Quote become orders.
Orders, Planning & Capacity
Deadlines, resources and work in one planning model.
Engineering, production and personnel
Routings go to engineering and production, staffing requirements into workforce scheduling.
Review planning against your real orders.
In a process analysis, we take a typical order through planning with your resources, shifts and deadlines.