Production Planning and Scheduling on One Model
Solvoyo’s supply chain decision automation plans and schedules production on one model, from rough-cut capacity to detailed line sequencing. One optimization run balances capacity constraints, materials and cost across seasonal volume curves, so the plan is feasible when it reaches the floor. Manufacturers get the right product mix at the right cost.
95%+
95%+Decision Automation
600-800 bps
600-800 bpsService uplift
Donโt take our word for it
“We see rapid changes in demand, and when the inventory is short, we adjust our production plans accordingly. The adjustment requires a lot of manual work, causing suboptimal plans and inefficiencies on the production site. With Solvoyoโs optimized plans, not only do we make easy and smart decisions but also respond to any rapid change at the speed of the market.”
โ80% of IT tools investment fails if the partners don’t strive to continuously improve and adapt. That is what sets our partnership with Solvoyo apart.โ
โWith Solvoyo, we eliminated spreadsheets from the process and simultaneously increased process speed and planner efficiency across all regions.โ
“Solvoyo is not just a great platform to support your replenishment process. It is also a great team to support you with insights and guidance on the road to improved efficiency. A true partnership.”
โSolvoyo has been a very effective solution partner in our fast growth and digital transformation journey. Using Solvoyoโs platform for fashion planning solutions, we were able to bring automation to buy planning and size optimization decisions.โ
“With a network of 9800 stores, supply chain disruptions and uncertainty are normal for us, we keep opening hundreds of new stores and multiple DCs every year. With advanced analytics and automation, we planned for this level of complexity way ahead of our competitors.โ
“When I write or speak about supply chain management, I always state that the purpose of a supply chain is to do one thing โ enable growth. I believe Solvoyo is the optimal supply chain platform to help companies achieve the growth they desire.”
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End-to-End Autonomous Planning & Analytics
Read more ->: End-to-End Autonomous Planning & AnalyticsUnilever โ Fortune 100 Global CPGManaging all their supply chain planning data on a single platform, they achieved real-time visibility…
Solvoyo Platform
Your Supply Chain, Performing at Its Peak
8-18%
Inventory reduction
600-800 bps
Availability uplift
8-12x
Faster planning
95%+
Decision Automation
Production Planning at Every Level
Any Production Model
Make-to-order, make-to-stock, process manufacturing and pure-assembly products are all planned on a single platform, so you need no separate tools that each capture part of the production picture. Solvoyo configures to the way production actually works, whether that is batch processes with yield variability, assembly lines with component dependencies, or mixed-mode environments that combine multiple models.
Synchronized Plans
Demand signals from demand planning flow automatically into production sequencing, material requirements and inventory targets. Sales commitments, supply constraints and production capacity are reconciled in a single model, so functions that each optimize for a different objective do not have to negotiate the plan in weekly meetings. Predictable events like seasonality and promotions, and unpredictable ones like sudden demand shifts or production breakdowns, get prescriptive actions. That removes the manual priority reshuffling that makes most production planning cycles inefficient.
Production plans connect to the rest of the planning cycle. Supply planning turns authorized production orders into component requirements and purchase orders, inventory planning sets the inventory targets, and sales and operations planning reconciles production capacity with demand, inventory and financial targets.
Multi-Horizon Planning
Long-range rough-cut capacity planning, medium-term production scheduling and near-term detailed line sequencing run on a single platform, and the plan at each horizon reflects the constraints and commitments of the others. Rough-cut capacity planning works at a finer grain than aggregate bucket estimates, using available lines, active shifts and changeover times. Operations leaders can trust the resulting capacity assessment and pass it to the floor without adjusting it first. For a customer example, read the Unilever production planning and scheduling case study.
Constraint Optimization
Capacity, materials and cost are balanced simultaneously in a single optimization run, so the production plan is feasible from the moment it is generated and holds up against real plant-floor constraints. Solvoyo tracks actions from rough-cut planning through to detailed scheduling, identifies the critical decision points, and keeps improving its AI/ML algorithms. The longer it runs, the more accurately it fits each manufacturer’s specific operating environment. The blog post top 6 must-have capabilities for automating CPG production planning covers what to look for.
Solvi: From Insights to Actions
Solvi, Solvoyo’s AI planning agent, continuously monitors capacity utilization, materials availability and production schedules against live demand. When constraints arise, it supports what-if analysis. It also turns the current plan into reliable available-to-promise commitments at the SKU and customer level.
Solvoyo Differentiators
Autonomous Decision Making
Executes high-quality supply chain decisions with little to no planner intervention.
95%+ User Acceptance
Recommendation quality is high enough that planners accept and execute the recommendations at scale, which shows in the 95%+ acceptance rate.
Optimization + AI + Heuristics
Combines mathematical rigor and machine intelligence to outperform rule-based planning.
Real-World Constraint Modeling
Builds real-world operational constraints directly into every decision the system makes.
Network Wide Objective Solving
Optimizes cost, service, inventory, and feasibility across the full supply chain at once.
Unified Data and Execution
Connects data, planning, diagnostics, and action in one system built for execution.
See it run on your own data
Plan and schedule production on one model with Solvoyo’s supply chain decision automation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Production planning decides what to produce, in what quantities and over what time horizon. It works in weeks and months and aligns capacity commitments, inventory targets and material availability before the schedule is built. Production scheduling turns that plan into a detailed sequence of work orders assigned to specific lines, shifts and resources, at daily or hourly granularity. The two have to be consistent: a schedule that cannot be executed within the capacity boundaries of the production plan causes unplanned stoppages and expediting costs. Solvoyo reconciles both on one platform, so line schedules stay synchronized with the Master Production Schedule.
Solvoyo covers production planning at every level: Long-Run Capacity Planning (LRCP), Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP), DDMRP and detailed scheduling. Long- and mid-term production plans reconcile with detailed schedules on the same platform. As the horizon shortens, the model gets more granular and the constraints get harder. Longer horizons allow adjusting the resource pool, authorizing overtime or investing in capacity, while daily schedules fix resources and need precise material and workforce assignments. With all horizons on one platform, you avoid the version conflicts and manual translation that come when each horizon lives in a separate system.
Solvoyo models both make-to-order and make-to-stock, and handles hybrid environments where some SKUs are built to stock and others are assembled or configured to order. Make-to-stock environments need production plans that build ahead of demand and balance finished goods inventory targets against capacity constraints and seasonal volume curves. Make-to-order environments need plans that respond to specific customer commitments within confirmed capacity windows. The same platform covers process-heavy and pure assembly products and encodes the planning logic each product type needs. For all of them, Solvoyo helps you optimize plans across different time horizons and synchronize demand, inventory, production and material plans.
Planners create, store, recall and compare constrained scenarios on one platform. Typical uses are presenting investment options to executives, supporting an S&OP or IBP process and setting next week’s Master Production Schedule. Planners can model any capacity change, such as adding a production shift, authorizing overtime, qualifying a co-manufacturing partner, or opening or closing a plant for a season, and get a fully optimized production plan for that configuration in minutes. Scenarios compare side by side with cost and service metrics shown together, so capital investment decisions come with quantified trade-offs.
Solvoyo exchanges data with SAP and other ERP systems automatically in both directions, using APIs. Master data, inventory positions, open purchase orders and confirmed production orders flow in from the ERP. Authorized production schedules, work orders and material requirements flow back into SAP for execution, without manual re-entry or format conversion. Planners can override a plan and push the change back into SAP through a Transport User Interface. Routine planning decisions need no IT involvement, and overrides do not break the automation. Behind that, Solvoyo runs DRP, MPS and PPDS (distribution requirements planning, master production scheduling and detailed production scheduling) on one platform, which removes the silos between them.