Production Planning

    A schedule that rebuilds itself

    Likwid sequences every work order against real capacity, releases it to the floor, and re-plans in seconds when a machine goes down — layered on the ERP you already run.

    Works alongside
    SAPOracleOdooMicrosoft Dynamics
    Robotic production line with a live scheduling HUD

    On track

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    Scheduling

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    The problem

    The plan is wrong by Tuesday

    A production plan is only true the moment it's published. Then demand moves, a machine trips, and the spreadsheet can't keep up.

    01

    Demand keeps moving

    Unpredictable demand makes a static production plan obsolete within days of publishing it.

    02

    Capacity never sits still

    Machine availability, labour and material constraints shift hour to hour — the plan doesn't keep up.

    03

    Planners firefight

    Most of a planner's week goes to manual re-planning in Excel instead of actually planning ahead.

    04

    Siloed, stale data

    Disconnected systems mean the schedule is built on numbers that were already out of date.

    Live

    When CNC-1 goes down, the schedule doesn't

    Watch a work order come off a broken machine and re-route to another line — automatically. No planner rebuilding a Gantt chart by hand, no waiting for the morning meeting.

    0s

    to re-plan around a breakdown

    Finite

    capacity, constraint-aware

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    Machine down

    CNC-1 · WO-3312 re-routed

    Re-planned

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    One loop, always running

    Order to floor, and back again

    Five moves the planner runs continuously. Tap any step to hold it.

    Demand and orders land

    Sales orders, forecasts and priorities flow in continuously — the plan starts from live demand, not last month's guess.

    Interlocking precision gears

    Every work order interlocks with the next

    Materials, machines, tooling and labour move as one mechanism. Change one tooth and the whole train re-meshes — that's what a real plan has to do, and what a spreadsheet never could.

    Multi-plant

    coordinated as one

    Finite

    capacity scheduling

    High-mix

    thousands of SKUs

    What it unlocks

    Fewer delays, more throughput

    40%

    fewer production delays

    25%

    higher throughput

    94%

    OTIF delivery performance

    60%

    less time spent re-planning

    Typical targets for AI production planning — actual results depend on your starting point.

    Why Likwid

    A planner that keeps up with the floor

    Planning that learns

    It improves from actual-versus-planned every run — not a static rules engine someone has to maintain.

    No hardcoded rules

    It adapts to how your plant actually runs, high-mix and low-volume, without rigid constraints to babysit.

    Real-time responsiveness

    It reacts to a shop-floor disruption in seconds, rebuilding a feasible schedule instead of waiting for Monday.

    FAQ

    Production planning, answered

    The questions planners ask before they switch on scheduling that runs itself.

    The best production planning software builds a feasible schedule against real capacity, releases it to the floor, and re-plans automatically when something changes. Likwid is AI-native for exactly that, and layers on top of the ERP you already run rather than replacing it.

    Most ERP scheduling is static and infinite-capacity — it assumes machines and labour are always available. Likwid does finite-capacity, constraint-aware scheduling and re-sequences the moment a machine goes down or a rush order lands.

    Yes. Jobs are sequenced against real machine availability, labour, tooling and material constraints, so the plan the floor receives is actually achievable — not a wish list.

    Three things: volatile demand that ages the plan, capacity that shifts constantly, and the manual re-planning in between. Likwid forecasts demand, sequences against capacity and rebuilds the schedule on disruption automatically.

    Yes — Likwid is ERP-agnostic. It sits on top of SAP, Oracle, Odoo, Microsoft Dynamics or a custom stack, and pushes the released schedule back for execution. No rip-and-replace.

    In seconds. When a machine goes down or priorities shift, Likwid re-sequences the affected work centres and re-routes jobs automatically, so planners stop rebuilding the schedule by hand.

    See a schedule rebuild itself on your floor

    A 30-minute walkthrough on your own work orders — sequencing, capacity and a live re-plan, on real data.

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    See Likwid on your own data

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