the graphical planning board for production in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV.

At a glance:

In order to remain competitive, it is particularly important that planning – especially production planning – runs optimally. At best, you have an overview of all orders, resources and capacities at all times.

Is this the case in your company? Can you quickly answer the following questions by taking a look into your system?

When is which employee scheduled where?
When is which machine scheduled with which process?
Where do I have free capacities?
Can I meet the promised deadline?
How does a short-term change affect the entire planning?

Netronic’s graphic planning boards offer you the possibility of visualizing a wide variety of planning areas using Gantt charts, thus ensuring that you always have an overview of all resources, capacities and orders. You can carry out planning simply by dragging and dropping and thus react faster to changes in planning. This reduces errors and ultimately saves time and money.

If none of these modules is suitable for you, but you still have a use case for a graphical planning board, please contact us and we will find a suitable solution for you based on the Netronic modules.

Netronic has developed two add-ons for the production area:

Netronic Visual Production Scheduler

The Visual Production Scheduler is Netronic’s interactive graphical planning board. It is an extension (app) fully integrated into the standard production module of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV.

The add-on visualizes

production orders
production order lines
production order operations
workstation groups
workstations
capacities as well as
shift calendars.

The App also enables intuitive planning by drag-and-drop. All changes are written back to Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV.

The add-on is available for Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV.

Netronic Visual (Advanced) Production Scheduler

The Visual Advanced Production Scheduler is an even more comprehensive graphical planning board from Netronic.

In addition to the functions of the Netronic Visual Production Scheduler, it offers

interactive forward planning with finite capacities
alternative workstations
material availability at production order level
standby resources per workstation group
the creation of different planning scenarios
the possibility of fixing operations and
meaningful color schemes.

The add-on is available for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

The add-ons Netronic Visual Production Scheduler and Netronic Visual Advanced Production Scheduler appear very similar at first glance. First and foremost they are add-ons that can be used to design a graphical planning board.

As a technology interpreter, I will explain to you clearly where differences occur.

After all, the devil is in the detail.

Criterium	Check
Interactive graphical planning board	✔
Interactive forward planning	✔
Creation of different planning scenarios	–
Display of free resources through the operating calendar	✔
Checking the machine availability	✔
Checking the availability of materials	–
Standby resources per working group	–
Fixation of operations	–
Automatic sequence planning	–
Definition of alternative machine centers	–
Special colour schemes	–
Availability for Dynamics 365 Business Central	✔
Availability for Dynamics NAV	✔

Criterium	Check
Interactive graphical planning board	✔
Interactive forward planning	✔ with finite capacities
Creation of different planning scenarios	✔
Display of free resources through the operating calendar	✔
Checking the machine availability	✔
Checking the availability of materials	✔
Standby resources per working group	✔
Fixation of operations	✔
Automatic sequence planning	✔ plans one order
Definition of alternative machine centers	✔
Special colour schemes	✔
Availability for Dynamics 365 Business Central	✔
Availability for Dynamics NAV	–

Criterium	Netronic Visual Production Scheduler	Netronic Visual Advanced Production Scheduler
Interactive graphical planning board	✔	✔
Interactive forward planning	✔	✔
Creation of different planning scenarios	–	✔
Display of free resources through the operating calendar	✔	✔
Checking the machine availability	✔	✔
Checking the availability of materials	–	✔
Standby resources per working group	–	✔
Fixation of operations	–	✔
Automatic sequence planning	–	✔ plans one order
Definition of alternative machine centers	–	✔
Special colour schemes	–	✔
Availability for Dynamics 365 Business Central	✔	✔
Availability for Dynamics NAV	✔	–

Error reduction

With the planning board, your planning is based on reliable information and is less prone to errors.

Customer satisfaction

You better meet deadlines, because you always have an overview of capacities and workloads.

Better overview

The visualization of your planning ensures you have an overview of orders, resources and capacities at all times.

NETRONIC has been the specialist for software for graphical planning since 1975. The solutions are always based on individual Gantt charts and are offered by more than 200 partners worldwide.

A Gantt chart is a proven tool for gaining operational agility through the visual management of time and resource-centric planning data. NETRONIC has been operating this ‘craft’ for more than 30 years – industry-proven, focused and with a high level of commitment for the success of the customers.

Thanks to their comprehensive competence in the area of Gantt applications, the experts at NETRONIC also quickly develop customized solutions for individual visualization needs.