The smart APS System for your production

Are these challenges impacting your operations too?

• Supply chain disruptions
• Skills shortages and frequent short-term absences
• Manual, time-intensive planning processes
• Unreliable delivery performance and long lead times
• Excessive work-in-progress and inventory levels
• High product variety and complexity
• Volatile short-term demand
• Rising production and energy costs

In today’s manufacturing landscape, reliable planning and efficient processes are more critical than ever. That’s where GANTTPLAN APS comes in. As a powerful add-on to your MES and ERP systems, GANTTPLAN helps manufacturing companies – across industries and sizes – tackle these challenges head-on and optimize their production planning.

Smarter Production Planning with GANTTPLAN APS

With GANTTPLAN APS, our Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system, you can plan all production orders efficiently—based on real-time resource availability and capacity constraints. It takes both cost and time factors into account, presenting results clearly in a graphical production control center.

Key capabilities include:

• Simultaneous multi-resource planning and scheduling
• Integrated material requirements planning (MRP)
• Optimization-based selection of production alternatives

Beyond day-to-day operations, GANTTPLAN APS also allows for the creation and analysis of what-if scenarios. This functionality supports better decision-making for medium- to long-term planning, helping companies implement both tactical and strategic measures with confidence.

As an add-on to ERP and MES systems, GANTTPLAN APS empowers manufacturing companies across industries and sizes to streamline order throughput, reduce delivery times, and continuously optimize production costs.

25%
Cost Saving

30%
Efficiency Increase

50%
Time Saving

100%
Transparency

Automated
Planning & Scheduling

• Automatic order scheduling
• Simulation and optimization-based planning
• Scenario mode

Multi-Resource
Planning & Scheduling

• Machines/work centers
• Workforce/Personnel
• Production resources and tools
• Material

Transparent
Planning & Scheduling

• Visualisation in the production control station (Gantt-Chart)
• Interactive and restriction-checked manual intervention options
• Reporting

Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

• Lot size optimization
• Material availability check
• Dynamic order network planning

GANTTPLAN Starter

The GANTTPLAN Starter Version offers a fast and easy entry into the world of automated production planning, taking all relevant resources into account. Its streamlined data model enables rapid implementation, giving you full transparency in your planning processes from day one. This version is especially well-suited for companies dealing with high product variety and low production volumes, making it an ideal solution for variant-rich, small-batch manufacturing environments.

GANTTPLAN Starter Features:

GANTTPLAN Expert

The GANTTPLAN Expert Version is a fully featured APS system designed to support advanced, cost-based, multi-criteria optimization and comprehensive material requirements planning (MRP). It enables you to make strategically sound decisions -even across extended planning horizons. GANTTPLAN Expert also lays the foundation for AI-assisted planning and helps you monitor and manage energy costs effectively.

All Features of GANTTPLAN Starter plus

GANTTPLAN Add-ons

Production planning doesn’t operate in isolation—it’s part of a broader infrastructure that typically includes an ERP system and, in most cases, an MES system. Smart add-ons enhance your digital planning environment with additional capabilities and unlock new potential for optimization. With GANTTPLAN Confirmation, you gain integrated BDE/MDE feedback functionality, while GANTTPLAN Analytics provides the foundation for future AI-driven planning applications.

Available for GANTTPLAN Starter and Expert

All optimisation goals of efficient production planning can be set in one tool

GANTTPLAN enables permanent cost optimisation based on individually weightable target criteria such as reducing the tooling or manufacturing costs. Besides addressing the various optimization goals it is also essential to monitor and control all resources and restrictions relevant to planning in the production department. This is often complicated by competing optimization goals.

Conventional planning methods like Excel are far outmatched by such a complex task. An intelligent planning solution is the answer: An Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system like GANTTPLAN enables a smooth order flow, short lead times and ongoing cost optimization. These are the hallmarks of the smart, efficient factory of tomorrow.

GANTTPLAN is future-proof

GANTTPLAN is powerful, state-of-the-art standard software with a service-oriented architecture and container-based design. The APS system therefore runs on leading IoT platforms like Microsoft Azure, and it is available with an integrated automatic planning function both on the premises and via the cloud. Equipped with the new web client, the application is additionally available on every device via web browser.

We are expanding GANTTPLAN to handle automated processes. The APS software will be able to react to external influences and take any necessary actions independently, for example. Features such as intelligent personnel requirement and production planning using artificial intelligence and neuronal networks are also in the pipeline.

GANTTPLAN APS: Ready to connect

GANTTPLAN APS is easy to integrate into existing system landscapes and can be seamlessly connected to existing ERP and MES systems for the benefit of digital networking. Perfect interaction between APS, MES and ERP results in even more time and cost savings in planning and ongoing operations. This is why we rely on a partner network of internationally and successfully operating companies.