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Production Planning

Production orders scheduled against real material availability — not hope.

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At order release
Availability check
not discovered on the shop floor mid-shift

Releasing a production order without checking whether the components are actually in stock is how a shop floor ends up idle mid-shift. TrackElan checks component availability at order release, drawing on the same live inventory and open-PO data used everywhere else in the system — no separate MRP export to reconcile against the floor.

Because production planning shares its data model with sales and purchasing, a change in the sales forecast or a delayed PO shows up in the production plan immediately, not at the next planning cycle.

What's included

Capabilities

Production order creation with component availability check at release
Capacity planning against work center availability
Bill of materials explosion for component requirements
Production order status tracking (created, released, in process, complete)
Component shortage alerts before order release
Integration with purchase and sales planning data
Why buy

Why teams buy Production Planning

Stop releasing production orders the floor cannot actually execute

React to demand or supply changes immediately, not at the next planning cycle

Give planners one system instead of reconciling MRP exports against ERP data

Cut idle shop-floor time caused by missing components

Cost & time comparison

How Production stacks up

Directional estimates based on typical mid-market rollouts. TrackElan cost index is normalized to 1.0; SAP/Oracle figures reflect license, implementation-partner, and BI add-on costs common at this deployment size.

Typical time to go live (weeks)
TrackElan4w
SAP41w
Oracle37w
Spreadsheets / Legacy1w
Relative total cost (index, TrackElan = 1.0)
TrackElan1×
SAP5.1×
Oracle4.6×
Spreadsheets / Legacy2.8×
CapabilityTrackElanSAPOracleSpreadsheets / Legacy
Native production in the base licenseExtra module/SKUExtra module/SKU
Reporting & pivots includedSeparate BI licenseSeparate BI licenseManual only
Typical go-live2–4 weeks9–12+ months8–10+ monthsN/A
Implementation partner required
Data stays reconciled automatically
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