Yesterday’s status costs you today
The planner’s morning disappears into asking departments for numbers, updating the board and answering where each job stands. A late status report or hidden material shortage means the schedule looks healthier than the floor really is. This is for US companies with a live vacancy for a Production Planner, Production Scheduler, Production Controller, Materials Planner, Expeditor, Inventory Control Specialist or Operations Coordinator.
What stops being done by hand
- Today’s status arrives in one roll-up from every connected source.
- Follow-ups for missing status reports are drafted for approval, without the planner writing another round of messages.
- Each work center’s open jobs are listed in start order.
- Every slip shows how far it moved and which later jobs or promises it touches.
- Material shortages appear against the live schedule, not yesterday’s plan.
- The job and work-in-progress board stays current from the latest reported facts.
- Each delay keeps the cause, date and trail behind it.
- The weekly operations pack is ready without another reporting day.
The desk prepares these; your people approve them before anything takes effect:
- Customer delivery updates wait as drafts for the person who owns the promise.
- Schedule options show what moves and which promises slip; your planner chooses and costs them.
What stays with your people
The plant is never rescheduled behind your planner’s back. Moving one job can move several others, so the desk shows the consequences and your planner chooses.
No schedule option gets a dollar figure. The desk knows no rates, run times or crews and leaves all costing to your planner.
An old update never passes as today’s status. Jobs without a current status report stay visibly unreported.
Works with what you already run
Status reports and schedules can come from Google Sheets or Monday.com, with orders, stock and material records in NetSuite. Customer updates and schedule changes are written as drafts first. We can usually connect to systems with an API, a supported integration or a reliable export. We confirm access before proposing.
How the first two weeks go
Choose one planning leak, such as the morning status roll-up, for a fixed-price pilot. We confirm access first; your ten-business-day pilot then runs on your own records read-only and prepares outward updates as drafts. We use your job ad to split the duties the desk takes on from those your person keeps and check two or three numbers you watch at the start and end. Your planner checks the current board, slips and shortages against tests agreed on day one and makes the go or no-go decision. You keep the configured workflow, source map and operating guide in your own account.