Advanced production planning & scheduling for discrete factories.
PlanIT is an analytics-based, finite-capacity planning engine built on Theory of Constraints, Lean and Agile principles — engineered for tanneries, leather goods, apparel and furniture factories that need to deliver on time, every time.
Planning and scheduling are the yin & yang of any factory.
Planning answers what to make and how. Scheduling answers who makes it and when. Get either one wrong and the order slips.
Done on spreadsheets or with a basic ERP screen, this becomes a slow, error-prone job. The planner spends days rebuilding the sheet every time a new order, a delay or a breakdown shows up. The plan ages the moment it is printed.
InventiX PlanIT replaces that fragile sheet with a real planning engine — one that understands your floor in detail and re-plans in minutes, not days.
Every factory fights these nine fires every week.
Change in order quantity
Delayed supply of raw materials
Fluctuation in cycle time
Material rejection
Resource unavailability
Machine breakdown
Change in delivery date
Sudden rush orders
Operator absenteeism
PlanIT does not eliminate these disruptions — nothing can. It absorbs them. Within minutes of a change, the schedule is re-balanced across machines, manpower and materials, and every stakeholder sees the new promise date.
Three foundations. One planning engine.
Theory of Constraints
Identify the bottleneck, exploit it, subordinate everything else to it. Goldratt's logic, applied to your real shop floor.
Finite Capacity Modeling
Plans against actual capacity — calendars, shifts, manpower, machines and molds — never against an infinite wish-list.
Lean & Agile Principles
Minimise WIP, expose waste, react fast. Small batches, fast cycles, transparent flow from order to dispatch.
One engine, three plant archetypes.
Machinery only
Process plants where the machine is the constraint — drums, presses, CNC, spray lines.
Man & Machinery
Mixed lines where operator skill and machine availability both bind the schedule.
Man, Machinery & Mold
Injection, casting, embossing — where mold changeovers drive sequencing decisions.
Six dimensions. Every plan, every shift.
PlanIT scores every candidate schedule against six real-world dimensions — the M6 — so the plan it gives you is the plan your floor can actually run.
Manpower
Skill, shift, attendance and learning curve — every operator counted against the plan.
Machine & Mold
Machine calendars, mold availability, changeover and breakdown logged as real constraints.
Material
Raw material availability, approval clearance and rejection feedback drive realistic start dates.
Method
Routings, SAM / cycle times and process recipes (drum, cutting, stitching, finishing) built in.
Movement
WIP movement between sections, bottleneck buffers and pack-and-hold tracked end-to-end.
Money
Working capital, WIP value and on-time penalty exposure visible inside every planning decision.
Realistic plans grounded in real capacity.
- Factory calendar, shifts, start/end times — modelled accurately.
- Accounts for breakdowns, excessive changeovers and operator absence.
- Justifies overtime, sub-contracting or batch-splitting when they actually help.
- Strikes a fine balance between demand and available capacity.
Try the change before you make it.
- Evaluates alternate plans against the same constraints.
- Compares consequential scenarios — extra shift, rush order, machine down.
- Schedules multiple work orders concurrently against shared resources.
- Gives planners the confidence to commit only what the floor can keep.
Move a bar. The whole plan re-balances.
- Colour-coded Gantt charts for every machine, line and operator group.
- Drag to re-sequence — downstream operations recalculate instantly.
- Share live with sales, sourcing and customers — no more email plans.
- Drill from order → operation → resource in a single click.
Everything a planner needs, in one system.
Finite Capacity Planning
Plans only what the floor can actually run — no more wishful Gantt charts.
What-If Analysis
Compare 2–3 plans side by side before you commit a single shift.
360° Order View
Every work order with priority, material clearance, cycle time and customer date in one system.
Drag & Drop Gantt
Re-sequence by hand and the engine re-balances downstream operations instantly.
Bottleneck Removal
TOC-based logic highlights the constraint and protects it with the right buffer.
Quick Deployment
Live on the floor in a few weeks — on-premise or cloud, standalone or ERP-integrated.
Works With Any ERP
SAP, Oracle, Tally, MS Dynamics, custom ERPs, or just clean Excel templates.
Built for Discrete
Tannery drums, apparel size-curves, leather goods cells, furniture BOMs — out of the box.
Complete visibility before you load the order.
- User-friendly graphical planning board with every active work order.
- WO number, specification, quantity, planned start and customer delivery in one row.
- High / Medium / Low priority auto-flagged from customer and delivery rules.
- Cycle time and SAM (Standard Allocated Minutes) shown on the same screen.
- Material availability and approval clearance date visible at the line item.
- Outsourcing, sub-assembly and inspection slots tracked alongside in-house operations.
Standalone or extended ERP.
PlanIT runs as a stand-alone planning system or plugs into any ERP — SAP, Oracle, MS Dynamics, Tally, or your custom system. We accept master data via REST APIs, secure file drop or simple Excel templates.
On-premise, private cloud or hosted.
A typical deployment is live in a few weeks. Our manufacturing engineers map your floor, configure routings and constraints, train your planners and stay on the line until the first month closes — on-time and on-plan.
What factories report after going live on PlanIT.
99% of customers see a measurable improvement in production performance within the first quarter — faster than they expected, and with the team they already have.
Talk to an engineer. Not a sales script.
Every InventiX deployment begins with a no-cost process study by our manufacturing engineers — scoped to your floor, not a generic pitch.