Service · Operations & Fulfilment
Production Planning & Coordination
A production plan lasts until the first rush order.
Planning production orders and capacities and coordinating in-house or contract manufacturing. The result is an up-to-date production plan and transparent production KPIs; manufacturing itself is done by the client or partners.
Usual
What you often get
Planning lives in the production manager's head and in a spreadsheet with lots of colours. Rush orders get squeezed in until nothing fits.
And whether the contract manufacturer abroad delivers on time, you find out when the container arrives. Or doesn't.
IntoOps
What you get from us
We keep the plan current every day: orders, sequences, capacities, materials. Manufacturing partners, yours or from our network, are steered on dates, volumes and quality. And because supply chain planning plans alongside, you don't find out on Monday that Tuesday's material is missing.
Service components
4 components. Each one available on its own.
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Production orders, sequences and dates.
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Matching machine and staff capacity to demand.
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Steering contract manufacturers on dates, quality and volumes.
Note: Prototypes, pre-series and series production are made by partners in our network. We manage the work.
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Daily production steering with OEE and other KPIs.
What you'll have at the end. Results you can check.
- A binding production plan, reconciled daily with orders and materials.
- A capacity check that shows machine and staff bottlenecks in advance.
- KPIs such as OEE, schedule adherence and scrap, visible on the shop floor.
- For each manufacturing partner: delivery dates, quality criteria and an escalation path, agreed in writing.
- A daily shop-floor meeting with fixed KPIs, actions and owners.
When you need this. And how you'll know.
- Rush orders upend the plan every week, and delivery dates become guesswork.
- You manufacture abroad and only learn about delays when the goods arrive.
- When the person who plans is out, nobody plans.
- For the launch, series production must start on time, and nobody is steering it.
- Machines stand idle while orders pile up elsewhere.
Rarely alone. Never bundled.
Production Planning & Coordination is usually part of a wider engagement, often alongside these services. You can still ask for Production Planning & Coordination on its own.
Shows up in these initiatives.
You don't need a whole initiative to get Production Planning & Coordination. These examples show where the service is often needed.
Good questions. Straight answers.
Do you have a factory of your own?
No. Manufacturing happens in your plant or at manufacturing partners, your own or ones from our network. We plan, coordinate and check dates, volumes and quality.
Do you plan in our ERP system?
Yes, as long as it provides the data needed. If master data, routings or functions are missing, we tell you. Our IT specialists add what's missing.
Do you also support the launch of a new series?
Yes. For the ramp-up we plan capacities, materials and dates and steer production until the series runs stably. The technical transfer from development is part of industrialisation & manufacturing transfer.
Can you bring shop-floor management into our production?
Yes, if it suits your operation. We introduce daily meetings with a few fixed KPIs and run them until your team leads them alone. Bigger changes to processes are delivered through performance improvement.
Proof first. Contract second.
In the free Initiative Check, we listen for 45 minutes and ask the questions that usually only come up after the contract is signed. Then you get a short written assessment: what we see, how we would go about it and roughly what it would take.
No obligation. And if we're not the right fit, we'll tell you.
Or write to us at hello@intoops.com.