Planning workspace
Plan reliable due dates for custom work moving through shared departments
DueDate Planner is built for companies where every order is different, but the work still flows through a known sequence of departments. It sits between project management and standard production planning.
Who Should Use This System?
The best fit is a custom-flow operation: enough sequence to plan, enough variation to need planner judgement.
- Custom orders with repeatable department flow
- Different work content for each order
- Shared capacity across many live jobs
- Planner-driven resource allocation
- Not every job is a one-off project
- Departments and skills repeat across orders
- Delivery depends on daily capacity
- Sequencing still matters
- No fixed routing or BOM for every job
- Effort changes by category and complexity
- Planner judgement is part of the plan
- Due dates need capacity checks
Planner Operating Cycle
The planner moves from setup data to live project allocation, then uses the capacity picture to commit dates.
Define departments, skill levels, resource pools, and the working calendar.
Create project groups, complexity levels, and workload expectations for each department.
Add incoming projects and define the stages each order needs to pass through.
Allocate skilled resources to project stages day by day against available capacity.
Use the calculated due date and capacity picture before promising delivery.
System Setup Progress
Current setup status for the planning foundation.
How DueDate Planner Thinks
The system combines department flow, skill capacity, workload estimates, and resource allocation into a capacity-led due date.
The product starts with the planning foundation and grows toward decision support for planners.