§ For planners

From planner to orchestrator.

Planning has always been the hardest job in the factory: every order, every line, every date, held together by one person. When the plan builds itself, that person stops placing orders and starts running the plant on the plan.

§ 01 / What changes

What changes

Placing orders on the board by handThe whole order book planned in minutes, on your factory’s rules

Rebuilding the plan after every changeA fresh plan every morning after the production update

The far horizon left unplannedEvery order with a line and a date from the day it arrives

Late orders found in the week they shipLate orders named on day one, with the reason

§ 02 / Your knowledge, in the rules

Your knowledge, in the rules

Which line runs which product best. How long a changeover really takes. The efficiency a line actually achieves, not the one on the target sheet. Today that knowledge lives in the planner's head and is applied one order at a time. In LoadIt it becomes the factory's rules, set once by the people who know, and applied to every order, every morning. The plan is right because the planner's knowledge is in it.

§ 03 / The orchestrator's day

What an orchestrator does every day

Acts on the exceptions

The plan names the orders that will be late and why: fabric not in, an approval pending, not enough capacity before the date. The orchestrator works those, while there is still time to save them.

Keeps the inputs true

Fabric dates, efficiencies, the order book itself. A plan is only as good as what goes into it, and the orchestrator is the one who knows when a number is wrong.

Keeps the floor on the plan

Where a line runs below its efficiency, or a changeover runs long, the orchestrator is on the floor to see why, and plan-to-execution improves week by week.

§ 04 / Skills

The skills the role needs

Planning fundamentals: SMV, capacity, efficiency by line and product, changeovers
Reading a plan: load against capacity, late orders and their reasons, the far horizon
Material and approval gates: T&A, fabric and trims, PP samples
Keeping data clean: the order book, efficiencies, calendars
Working with merchandising and production on dates the floor can keep

§ 05 / Certification

Get certified

The LoadIt certification for planners has two parts, and is in preparation now:

Foundation: planning in the age of automatic planning. The fundamentals, the industry, the new role and how technology changes it. Open to every planner, whatever tool your factory uses.
Practitioner: running LoadIt. Settings, reading the plan, late orders and their reasons, the daily routine.

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