Production scheduling for configure-to-order manufacturing:

We are no start-up playing around with somebody else's money. We are a profitably growing company and built all our visual scheduling extensions from our own operating cash flow. As a company, we have 40+ years of experience developing visual scheduling software. We are convinced that this depth and breadth of experience are unique.

We are NETRONIC Software from Aachen (Germany). We are a family-owned business run by the brothers Dr. Elmar and Dr. Martin Karlowitsch. Our company was founded in the mid 70ies already. Elmar and Martin represent the second generation of the company management and took over the company via a management buy-out. We have customers on all 5 continents and also employ a very international team.

The phone will ring, and your best customer will request an urgent production order. You will have to squeeze it in - without knowing the impact on other production orders. You will start flying blind again, and rather soon your life will be chaotic fire-fighting again. In the midst of all chaos, a machine will break down and things will get worse. Sub-assemblies will become late, and you won't be sure which production orders are impacted. This will be (at the latest) the next time that you wish you had started working with a professional production scheduling solution already.

You will win transparency about your production orders, and your work centers as well as your machine centers. Actionable information will help you to increase your on-time deliveries, to cut down lead times, and to improve your throughput. You will see which sub-assemblies impact which production. Plus: you will have the earliest material availability information on hand. As a result, you will experience profitable growth of your shop - without being in a constant chaotic fire-fighting mode.

We have been working with many companies that are like yours. Manufacturers that assemble unique products against concrete sales orders with tight deadlines. In order to produce those unique deliveries in time, you need to handle a complex sub-assembly production. As such, your process is a production that combines a machine shop with a labor-intense assembly. 

The VAPS is made to cope with the resulting challenges. It helps identify late jobs. It provides transparency of your product/sub-assembly network. It schedules based on the earliest material availability and considers capacity restrictions.

The VAPS is an extension that is fully integrated into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. 

Integration means:

• The VAPS reads from production orders, production order lines, production order routing lines as well as work centers, machine centers, and capacity ledger (to name a few).
• The VAPS writes into production orders, production order lines, production order routing lines as well as capacity absence, and calendar entries (to name a few).
• The VAPS scheduling logic happens within Business Central. Hence, your data does never leave Business Central. 

The VAPS is an extension that we purposely made for Dynamics 365 Business Central. You cannot get it for any other ERP system.

Being made for Business Central, the VAPS knows Business Central and is as tightly integrated into Business Central as possible.

It is not a general-purpose scheduling software to which Business Central is "just another" ERP system to connect to. The VAPS is exclusive. It is Business Central only.

No, the VAPS is not cloud-only.

If you run Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises, you can buy a VAPS license and install it locally.

If you run Business Central in the Microsoft cloud, you can get the VAPS from AppSource.

We have partners who decided to go deep with respect to the VAPS. These partners did a qualification program with us that enables them to implement the VAPS without our help.

Typically, these partners have one or more employees dedicated to manufacturing and the VAPS. 

"VAPS certified" means that these partners committed both time and money (yes: they need to pay for the certification) to the VAPS.

Yes, of course.

Every Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partner who has a valid reseller agreement with us can sell the VAPS.

However, if your partner is not "VAPS certified", you have to get all VAPS services, training, and consulting from us.