Visual production scheduling
Bring production orders, operations, routings and resources together in a graphical schedule, making it easier to understand what is planned and when.
Turn your production plan into a visual, interactive schedule
See your production schedule clearly, spot issues earlier,
and adjust your plan quickly when priorities change.
VPS helps manufacturers visualize, understand and adjust their production schedule.
Visual Production Scheduler (VPS) brings visual production scheduling to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for manufacturers that need greater visibility and an interactive way to work with their production schedule.
Capacity visibility
See production loads across work and machine centers, helping you identify capacty peaks and potential bottlenecks in the current schedule.
Planner-supported scheduling
Use visual drag & drop and Schedule Successors to adjust the production schedule while keeping the planner in control of scheduling decisions.
Why VPS?
Bring clarity to production scheduling and stay in control when plans change.
VPS gives planners a graphical view of Business Central production orders, operations, resources, and capacity information, providing a clearer basis for day-to-day scheduling decisions.
Understand your production schedule at a glance
See production orders, operations, resources and capacity information togethers, giving you a clearer view of what is planned and where attention may be needed.
Spot scheduling issues earlier
See due dates, order status, capacity loads and visual alerts, helping you identify late operations, capacity peaks and potential bottlnecks.
Adjust the schedule with confidence
Respond to changing priorities by moving operations in time or between resources with visual drag & drop, with saved changes reflected in the underlying Business Central production data.
See VPS in action
See how VPS turns Business Central manufacturing data into a visual, interactive production schedule that helps planners understand and adjust the production plan.
Visual scheduling · Capacity visibility · Planner control
See the schedule clearly and make changes directly with drag & drop.
How VPS makes production scheduling visual and interactive
VPS combines graphical production views with visual scheduling tools, so you can understand your current schedule, identify issues, and make changes directly.
Production view order
See production orders, routing information, scheduled work and machine centers, order status and due-date information together in a graphical view.
Capacity view
See operations by work and machine center and understand how resources are being used in the current production schedule.
Histogram view
See capacity load charts together to identify work and machine centers facing capacity peaks or potential bottlenecks.
Schedule successors
Use Schedule Successors to reschedule subsequent routing operations when changes are made to the production schedule.
Visual alerts
Use context-sensitive visual warnings to identify issues such as operations exceeding their due dates or capacity overloads.
Route & dependency visibility
See production order routing lines, setup and run times, and relevant dependencies directly in the visual production schedule.
Visual drag & drop scheduling
Move operations in time or assign them to another work or machine center directly in the graphical schedule.
Viewer mode
Display an automatically updating, view-only production schedule for people who need visibility without scheduling controls.
"VPS is nicely integrated with Business Central without having to build expensive interfaces or without the need to copy data back and forth. It is, data-wise, always updated, accurate and complete. It is also a visual solution which makes planning a lot easier, as it is quite straightforward to make any changes to the production plan, which can be done up to the last minute.”
- Paul Den Haese, Owner, Sofel
Visual production scheduling built for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Natively connected to Business Central
Work with the data you already use
See your production schedule at a glance
Available on Microsoft AppSource
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Get more from Business Central Manufacturing
Business Central provides a strong manufacturing and planning foundation. Visual scheduling adds the visibility and interaction planners need to understand and work with the production schedule.
Learn how visual scheduling brings relevant manufacturing data together and complements the production planning capabilities already available in Business Central.
FAQ
Does VPS change the standard Business Central manufacturing and scheduling logic?
No. VPS stays close to the standard manufacturing and scheduling logic of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. It adds a visual, interactive scheduling environment without introducing its own scheduling logic, giving planners a graphical way to see and adjust the Business Central production schedule.
Why add visual production scheduling to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central?
Business Central provides the manufacturing and planning foundation but does not provide a visual production scheduling environment as standard. VPS brings production orders, operations, resources, capacities and other scheduling information together in graphical views, helping planners understand the current schedule and identify where attention is needed. Planners can see the relevant information at a glance instead of navigating through different tables and fields in Business Central to piece together the current scheduling situation. This reduces the time needed to understand the schedule and identify where attention is needed.
What production questions can VPS help planners answer?
VPS gives planners a visual overview of production orders, operations, resources and capacities, making it easier to see the current scheduling situation and find the information they need.
At a glance, planners can answer questions such as: What is the status of a production order? Will the due date be met? Which work or machine centers have available capacity, and where could bottlenecks occur?
VPS or VAPS – which one should I use?
VPS is well suited to manufacturers taking their first steps toward more digital production scheduling, with a focus on gaining better visibility and an interactive, drag-and-drop planning experience. It stays close to standard Business Central manufacturing and scheduling logic.
VAPS is designed for manufacturers that already have a clear understanding of their day-to-day scheduling challenges and need more advanced ways to address them. It adds finite capacity scheduling and capabilities for coordinating material availability, alternative resources, production priorities, and different scheduling scenarios.
Why use a production scheduler built for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central?
A scheduler integrated with Business Central works directly with the manufacturing information already maintained in your ERP, including production orders, routings, work and machine centers, and capacity information.
This also has an important security benefit: scheduling data does not need to be copied into an external system, keeping it within the Microsoft ecosystem and aligned with Microsoft’s security standards. With VPS, visual scheduling remains connected to Business Central manufacturing information rather than becoming a disconnected process.
See how VPS fits your production environment
Make your Business Central production schedule easier to understand, identify scheduling issues earlier, and adjust your plan visually with drag & drop.
