Consistent planning in your production

Real-time insight into your production schedule

Real-time insight into your capacity, inventory, and progress. With the planning module in FOBIS, you can quickly determine whether your commitment is feasible and where adjustments are needed.

A More Logical Production Sequence

FOBIS helps you better align orders in advance with raw materials, production lines, personnel, and capacity. This creates a calmer work environment and gives you better control over your costs.

Even Greater Control Over Returns

Get a handle on your capacity, waste, and delivery reliability by intelligently linking planning and production data. That’s how planning makes a difference to your margin.

Production planning determines more than just your schedule

In food production, planning is rarely straightforward. Orders change, raw material prices fluctuate, staff are in short supply, and customers demand shorter lead times. At the same time, you must comply with strict requirements regarding traceability, record-keeping, and quality.

The key to success lies in integration. By directly linking planning to your production and inventory, you can respond more quickly to changes. With FOBIS, you bring planning, production, and execution closer together for maximum efficiency.

What are the benefits for you?

Better alignment between planning, production, and logistics
A calmer work environment thanks to clearer planning
Greater control over margins, waste, and delivery reliability

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Strategic planning with Block Scheduling

The Block Planning module in FOBIS handles this. You can define the blocks yourself. Examples include production blocks, order-picking blocks, loading blocks, and delivery times.

Does an order need to be loaded by 3:00 p.m.? In that case, FOBIS can account for production that must be completed by 2:00 p.m., followed by order picking between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. Thanks to these block relationships, orders are automatically scheduled at the right time.

This prevents production, logistics, and delivery from being managed in isolation from one another. You’ll not only plan smarter, but—more importantly—more reliably.

What are the benefits for you?

Automatic demand calculation:
Calculates what needs to be produced based on orders, forecasts, inventory, and current production.
Smart planning across blocks:

Schedule production across blocks, lines, and capacity, including lead times and block relationships.
Coordination across the supply chain:

Links finished products, semi-finished products, and raw materials into a single operational plan.
Real-time planning insight:

Displays demand, inventory, capacity, and production proposals with clear justification.
Directly to execution:

Creates production orders and planning tasks directly from the plan, minimizing manual work.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Advanced Production Planning in FOBIS?

Advanced Production Planning is a planning method in which similar orders or products are grouped into logical production blocks. Using block planning helps minimize changeover time, create a smoother production flow, and reduce errors.

Why is Advanced Production Planning relevant for food companies?

Food companies often deal with a wide variety of products, short lead times, shelf-life requirements, and strict quality standards. Advanced Production Planning helps better align the production sequence with raw materials, recipes, allergens, packaging, production lines, and cleaning.

Who is production planning intended for?

The planning module in FOBIS is relevant to executive management, operations, logistics, and QA. For management, it primarily provides insight into delivery reliability, capacity, efficiency, and potential risks.

What are the benefits of better production planning?

Production Planning:
You schedule orders based on lead time, capacity, inventory, personnel, and machinery. The goal is to create a feasible schedule that ensures production, logistics, and delivery are well-coordinated.

Advanced Production Planning:
You group products or orders that are compatible with each other, for example, based on the same raw materials, line settings, packaging, allergens, temperature, or cleaning route. The goal is fewer changes, a smoother workflow, and a more efficient sequence on the production floor.