Today
An urgent job goes into tomorrow’s schedule. Only later does the team realise it uses material reserved for another promised delivery.
A practical build example
See what a rush order will delay before saying yes.
Moving one job forward changes the material and machine time available for other orders. The planner needs to see the trade-off.
Cutting
Machining
Inspection
Dispatch
One job. Too many handoffs.
01
The planner checks material in one sheet and machine loading in another.
02
Purchase is called to confirm whether incoming material will arrive.
03
The schedule is changed, but not every department sees the latest version.
04
At the end of the week, late jobs have no consistent reason recorded.
How we would build it.
Connected steps.
Clear checks along the way.
Bring commitments into one view
List open jobs, promised dates, usable stock, reservations and confirmed incoming material. Separate planned capacity from actual progress.
Your team checks
The planner checks the starting data with stores and production. An old stock figure makes a new plan unreliable.
Try the priority change
Show which jobs compete for the same material or work centre when the urgent job moves forward. Flag shortages and likely changes to other completion dates.
Your team checks
The planner reviews the estimates. The owner decides which customer commitment can change.
Issue the revised work
Give each team the current job sequence and approved drawing or instruction. Send purchasing the shortages with their required dates.
Your team checks
Production confirms the instruction revision and purchase confirms supplier dates.
Record what happened
Capture output, reusable material, scrap and reasons for stoppages against the job. Use those records to improve the next plan and investigate unexplained losses.
Your team checks
Supervisors review exceptions. Scrap and stock adjustments require the business’s normal approval.
What your team
stops doing.
Comparing several planning sheets by hand
Finding shortages only when a job starts
Circulating conflicting schedule versions
Guessing why an order was delayed
What we need to get started +
- Open jobs and delivery commitments
- Material requirements and reservations
- Work-centre capacity estimates
- Drawings, instructions and approval rules