Advanced Planning Board (APB) is an AI-augmented automated and integrated planning system designed to help your schedulers do less manual work. By utilizing scheduling optimization technology, your planning department can focus on exceptions only.
Our intelligent scheduling system serves as an automation tool for your operation. By handling repetitive scheduling tasks, it allows your team to focus on exceptions and improve efficiency. This automation provides greater impact, enabling you to take on more business volume with existing resources.
With support for scheduling across multiple plants in one instance, you gain complete visibility and control over your entire production network. Whether you have a single site or a global operation, our scheduling solution scales to your needs.

Assure Total Balance and Organization Optimizes Your Workload
Simplify Job Scheduling and Ensure Better Operational Performance
Utilize Point/Cost/Time-Basis for Automated Scheduling
Trust the Automation
Leveraging machine learning to optimize scheduling efficiency, our intelligent scheduling system analyzes historical data and product similarities, continuously improving schedule quality. Multi-operation jobs are sequenced properly across all required machine centers by considering the full product structures. Inventory transfers between machines are scheduled just- in-time to minimize work-in-progress.
We maximize on-time delivery performance through customer-centric prioritization capabilities. Preferred customers can be prioritized to ensure their orders are completed by committed dates. Overall, the system capabilities enable optimization of machine utilization, reduce cycle times, improve quality, and provide better customer service through automated scheduling

Improve Load Balancing
Flexible Point & Formula System
The Converting Scheduling engine operates off of a sophisticated and flexible point system, based on assigned formulas to support a push and/or pull planning culture depending on business needs through rules established. The system encapsulates operational logistics across your entire operation and appropriately prioritizes orders and reserves machine time. With flexibility, order characteristics are weighted to generate the perfect schedule that optimizes proper load balance and throughput.
Dynamic Scheduling
Using point-based calculations, the system considers historical information for establishing set-up and run speeds delivering an accurate view of the schedule. If an unscheduled downtime event occurs, the system will dynamically reschedule maximizing all available machines. Schedulers can then run quick “what if” scenarios to see the impact on entire operations and schedule. Lineups can be modified from any location-mobilizing the scheduler.
Machine & Load Balancing
Machine balancing is accomplished by using alternate/“like” machines determined by historical run information. This supports immediate decision-making, based on real-time information, for improved capacity management.
Hear from real Advanced Planning Board (APB) customer
"Advanced Planning Board (APB) has been a huge upgrade with fast time to value and has made us more efficient and effective with the day-to-day planning. I feel like the decisions I am making are much more accurate and informed."
Nathan Christy, Production Scheduling Manager, Complete Design & Packaging
