In industrial and manufacturing environments, agility is critical. Employees, teams, and resources need to be scheduled accurately based on skills, availability, roles, and shifts.
With SOLUTIO, you plan everything in one central platform. And when reality changes, you can replan quickly and in a controlled way, without having to start over in Excel or disconnected tools.
Staff planning in production quickly runs into its limits
In many production environments, planning is still highly fragmented. Availability sits in one file, competencies in another, and absences often come in too late. The moment someone drops out or a machine goes down, manual reshuffling starts all over again.
This leads to:
- time loss with every change
- hard-to-replace operators or team members
- misallocation of people without the right skills or certifications
- unclear staffing per line, shift, or department
- too little control over capacity and continuity
Reality changes faster than traditional planning can keep up.
SOLUTIO brings people, teams, and resources together in a single planning environment
SOLUTIO is built for organizations where planning goes beyond simply filling open slots.
You don’t plan based on availability alone, but also on skills, certifications, roles, shifts, teams, and operational requirements. That way, you don’t just see who is available, but who is actually deployable.
That’s what makes the difference in production environments where speed, continuity, and the right match are critical.
They rely on SOLUTIO
Shift planning and capacity planning in one overview
Shift planning and capacity planning
Plan shifts, lines, tasks, and staffing in one visual overview, real-time, without version chaos
Real-time rescheduling in case of changes
In case of machine failure, order changes, or absences, you can quickly adjust with a feasible plan
Deployment according to skills and certificates
Automatically match the right operators based on skills, line authorizations, certifications, and safety requirements
personeelsplanning per lijn, afdeling, site of ploeg
Get an overview of staffing, roles, and resources in any operational context
Registration and operational feedback from the shop floor
See not only what is planned, but also what is actually happening on the floor
Reporting &
ERP-ready follow-up
Approved performance and operational data flow smoothly into follow-up and post-calculation.
Planning based on skills certificates and availability.
With SOLUTIO, you can immediately see who is available based oncompetencies, certificates, availability, and operational context. This way, you plan faster, smarter, and with much more certainty.
Quickly reschedule in case of absence, dropout, or changing circumstances
This way, you limit downtime and keep the operation moving.
Digital registration and follow-up on the shop floor
A production plan only has value if it is also connected to the reality on the shop floor.
That’s why SOLUTIO combines planning with operational follow-up and registration. This way, you not only see what is planned but also what is actually happening. This makes it easier to adjust, detect bottlenecks, and respond faster to deviations.
Master data / ERP → SOLUTIO planning → registration → follow-up
How it works
Teams can easily register via the mobile app:
Start/stop, breaks, attendance
Output, scrap, deviations, quality checks
Downtime, comments, photos, and attachments
Checklists (safety, quality, startup/reconfiguration)
This way, reality on the shop floor immediately becomes usable data for follow-up, post-calculation.
For which industry and production companies is SOLUTIO suitable?
SOLUTIO is particularly strong in industrial and production environments where standard planning falls short.
Think of companies with:
- operator planning across multiple lines or departments
- shift systems and varying shifts
- deployment based on skills or certifications
- dependence on machines, materials, or other resources
- need for quick replacements in case of absence
- need for real-time rescheduling
Whether it's about manufacturing, assembly, or logistics production environments: SOLUTIO helps you make planning manageable and agile.
The platform for modern industry and manufacturing companies
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Samsonite – A success story
Samsonite: from Excel chaos to smart workforce planning in production
How Samsonite brought more order, speed, and efficiency to a complex operational environment.
Challenge:
Samsonite's European distribution center in Oudenaarde was still heavily reliant on Excel for workforce planning. This led to errors, time loss, and frustrations due to poor communication between team leaders, HR, and staffing agencies. The combination of multiple warehouses, shift systems, and temporary workers made planning difficult to manage.
Solution:
With SOLUTIO, Samsonite digitized the entire workforce planning. The system takes into account employees' skills, availability, and rotation preferences and integrates with time tracking and HR systems.Thanks to automatic rotation, transparent planning, and real-time data, Samsonite regained oversight and control.
Source: Value Chain Management (oct–nov 2025)
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