Our Beliefs
An approach built on field experience and business expertise
Production planning is not a purely computational exercise. It is a delicate balancing act between industrial constraints, market requirements and strategic objectives. It must accurately reflect industrial dynamics while ensuring robust, aligned decisions.
Positioned at the heart of the industrial system, production planning connects the strategic vision defined in S&OP with on-the-ground execution. It relies on reliable reference data and precise capacity management to translate high-level orientations into executable plans. This intersection between strategy and operations enables effective arbitration between economic performance, industrial constraints and customer commitments.
A high-performing planning model must integrate MPS, MRP and capacity planning mechanisms to ensure consistency between needs, resources and operational priorities. This integration strengthens team alignment and secures industrial decisions.
Effective production planning therefore depends on a clear, coherent model aligned with real-world practices. It must support industrial transformations, facilitate user adoption and provide a reliable framework for harmonizing decisions across production, planning and procurement.
Planning grounded in operational reality
A good model does not oversimplify, it captures business-specific realities. Each industry has its own characteristics: ultra-fresh products, seasonal production, continuous flows, or craftsmanship-based production in luxury.
We design models capable of reflecting this diversity, including:
- Internal and external capacities,
- Manufacturing rules,
- Production sequences,
- Lead times,
- Batch sizes,
- Minimum launch quantities,
- Sourcing policies,
- Yield rates,
These machine, labor and lead-time constraints enable the creation of production plans that are truly executable and aligned with shop-floor reality.
They also provide a reliable view of material requirements and capacity constraints, forming the basis for more stable planning that anticipates bottlenecks and secures execution.
By combining detailed modeling with operational pragmatism, we help clients leverage industrial complexity while maintaining intuitive, high-performing tools. This approach avoids theoretical models disconnected from reality and supports long-term skill development within teams.
Agility as a decision-making enabler
The value of a plan lies in its ability to adapt quickly. In an increasingly unstable environment—demand volatility, supply constraints, production disruptions—planning must enable responsiveness and flexibility rather than impose rigid frameworks.
Whether through alert-driven dashboards or linear optimization solvers, our solutions allow instant scenario simulation, impact analysis (resources, lead times, costs), and generation of viable, optimal plans. This agile approach allows planners to retain control over immediate decisions while maintaining a clear, reliable medium- and long-term outlook.
Continuous simulation strengthens the robustness of production plans and improves the quality of load/capacity trade-offs. It turns the tool into a tactical support system capable of securing industrial commitments even in constrained environments, and a powerful lever for capacity management ahead of final plan validation.
Turning data into a strategic asset
In many cases, planning failures stem less from the model itself than from data management. We firmly believe that reliable, centralized and shared data is essential for effective planning.
Our models integrate seamlessly with existing IT ecosystems, provided that a clear data architecture is defined during the scoping phase. This connectivity breaks down silos and ensures smooth information flows between planning, production, procurement and finance, enabling a shared, consistent vision.
This integration makes it possible to:
- Secure material requirements,
- Improve load anticipation,
- Strengthen consistency across planning horizons,
It also ensures continuous alignment between bills of materials, routings, capacities and MRP parameters, maintaining coherence across production, procurement and finance.
Supporting decisions without taking control
The purpose of a planning tool is never to replace human expertise, but to enhance it. Planning inherently involves trade-offs where experience, intuition and field knowledge remain essential.
We design transparent, understandable and interactive models that allow users to fully grasp results, challenge assumptions and refine decisions autonomously. Automation is not an end in itself; it is a means to bring clarity, meaning and control to data-driven decisions.
By restoring time and visibility to planners, the tool fundamentally transforms their role. They move beyond simply building a “working” plan to becoming true conductors of industrial performance—exploring scenarios, assessing impacts and recommending optimal solutions. The planner’s value shifts from calculation to analysis, from reporting to decision-making. This dynamic improves ownership of the MPS model and strengthens adherence to validated plans.
The planner’s value shifts from calculation to analysis, from reporting to decision-making. This dynamic improves ownership of the MPS model and strengthens adherence to validated plans.
Tangible results delivered for our clients
Our clients quickly observe gains in performance, visibility and responsiveness. Production planning becomes a strategic capability that anticipates constraints and supports informed decisions. Execution is secured and industrial control is reinforced.
- Optimized performance: realistic plans aligned with capacities, reducing forecast-to-execution gaps and improving line efficiency.
- Improved agility: rapid scenario simulation to adjust production based on demand and resources, accelerating arbitration.
- Full visibility: integrated views of needs, inventories and capacities to prevent shortages and overloads across all BOM levels.
- Enhanced traceability: decision history to analyze plan adherence and understand trade-offs, enabling continuous improvement.
- Guaranteed robustness: clear workflows that structure validations and secure each planning step.
- Seamless integration: a model connected to ERP, S&OP and DRP, eliminating manual re-entry and ensuring end-to-end data consistency.
