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Trusted Scheduling and Rescheduling

Publish schedules you can trust, and adapt them in minutes when reality changes.

What it does

  • Constraint-aware scheduling across machines, people, tooling, and routings.
  • Priority and due-date orchestration with on-time-delivery-first planning.
  • Fast reschedule for disruptions: machine down, rush orders, labor gaps.
  • Dependency and sequence handling, including operation order and outsource steps.
  • Schedule versioning, draft versus published.

What's broken today

Most production schedules are static, forcing planners to play catch-up when supply or demand shifts. Manual allocation leads to underutilized machines, unbalanced shifts, and overtime spikes. Schedules drift from reality the moment they are published.

Inputs

  • Work orders, due dates, quantities, priorities
  • Routings and operations with standard times
  • Machine capabilities and preferred resources
  • Labor availability, shifts, and skill or certification mapping
  • Basic inventory readiness signals
  • Operational rules (outsourcing, changeover, dispatching preferences)

Outputs

  • Gantt schedule with the full plan visible
  • Dispatch list for the shop floor
  • Risk flags for late or at-risk orders
  • Schedule adherence targets

KPIs impacted

  • On-time delivery / on-time in-full (OTD / OTIF)
  • Lead time
  • Throughput
  • Expedite rate
  • Schedule adherence

How rescheduling works

Disruptions are a fact of manufacturing life. Nexus treats reschedule as a first-class workflow:

  1. Detect the disruption (machine down, rush order, missing material, labor change).
  2. Re-evaluate impacted work orders against current constraints and priorities.
  3. Generate a candidate revised schedule.
  4. Surface the trade-offs (what slips, what speeds up, who needs to be told).
  5. Publish the revised schedule and propagate to operator screens.

Most reschedules complete in minutes, not the hours typical of spreadsheet-driven processes.

Integration points

Scheduling consumes inputs from ERP (work orders, due dates), Master Data and Constraint Management (routings, capabilities, skills), and Shop-Floor Execution (live status). It publishes to shop-floor dispatch boards and operator screens.