How much does production scheduling software cost?
Production scheduling software falls into three price bands: cloud MRP at roughly $150 to $300 per user per month, enterprise APS quoted privately at roughly $50,000 to $500,000, and published-price finite capacity scheduling such as EDGEBIC at $25,000 or $35,000 as a one-time licence.
The difficulty is that the middle band will not tell you its number. Most true advanced planning and scheduling vendors quote only after a discovery call, so a manufacturer comparing options often spends several hours before finding out whether any of them are in range. This page gives the straight answer, including where our own price sits and where it does not fit.
| Tier | Typical price | Model | Scheduling depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud MRPKatana, MRPeasy | $150 to $300 per user, per month | Subscription, billed monthly or annually | Basic capacity planning, not true finite capacity |
| Enterprise APSSiemens Opcenter APS, Asprova, PlanetTogether | Roughly $50,000 to $500,000, quoted privately | Quote only, usually subscription plus implementation and annual maintenance | True finite capacity, deep constraint modeling |
| Published-price APSEDGEBIC by User Solutions | $25,000 or $35,000, one-time | One-time perpetual license, no subscription | True finite capacity: machines, labor, tooling and materials |
Enterprise APS figures are third-party estimates from software directories rather than vendor list prices, because those vendors do not publish one. Treat them as a range, not a quote.
Which band actually fits your plant
Cloud MRP
Small shops that mainly need inventory and order tracking, where the schedule is a secondary concern.
Enterprise APS
Large manufacturers with dedicated project teams and a multi-month implementation budget.
Published-price APS
Small to mid-size manufacturers who need real finite capacity scheduling without an enterprise procurement cycle.
Where EDGEBIC is the wrong answer
If you mainly need inventory counts, purchase orders and order tracking, and the schedule is a whiteboard you are comfortable with, a $200 per month cloud MRP tool is a better use of your money than a $25,000 scheduler. Finite capacity scheduling earns its price when capacity is the thing costing you delivery dates: when jobs are late because two of them need the same machine, when changeover order matters, or when quoting a date is guesswork.
Equally, if you need deep enterprise constraint modelling across many plants with a dedicated project team, the enterprise APS band exists for a reason.
What EDGEBIC costs
EDGEBIC APS is $25,000 and covers finite capacity scheduling and optimization. EDGEBIC Complete is $35,000 and adds MRP, inventory, purchasing and material pegging. Both are one-time perpetual licences running the identical scheduling engine, so the only difference is material planning. It is a Windows application, your data stays on your own machines, and it integrates with any ERP that can export to Excel, CSV or a database.
Common questions about scheduling software cost
How much does production scheduling software cost?
It falls into three bands. Cloud MRP tools such as Katana and MRPeasy publish subscription pricing around $150 to $300 per user per month, but offer basic capacity planning rather than true finite capacity scheduling. Enterprise advanced planning and scheduling systems such as Siemens Opcenter APS, Asprova and PlanetTogether do not publish list pricing at all; third-party estimates put them between roughly $50,000 and $500,000 plus annual maintenance. EDGEBIC by User Solutions publishes its price: $25,000 for the APS edition and $35,000 for the Complete edition, as a one-time perpetual license.
Why do most APS vendors not publish their pricing?
Because the price depends on a configuration that has to be scoped first, and because quoting privately lets the number vary by buyer. The practical effect for a manufacturer is that comparing options requires sitting through several discovery calls before learning whether any of them are affordable. Published pricing removes that step.
Is scheduling software usually a subscription or a one-time purchase?
Most of the category is subscription now, both the cloud MRP tools and the enterprise APS systems, which typically add annual maintenance of roughly 18 to 22 percent of licence value. One-time perpetual licensing is the exception. EDGEBIC is sold that way: you buy it once and there is no recurring per-seat fee.
What makes finite capacity scheduling more expensive than basic MRP?
Basic MRP assumes infinite capacity: it tells you what to make and when it is due, but not whether the plant can actually do it in that window. Finite capacity scheduling books every operation against real machine hours, shift calendars, operator availability and changeover time, so the dates it produces are achievable. Modelling those constraints is the harder engineering problem, and it is what the price difference buys.
What else should I budget for beyond the licence?
Data preparation and implementation time, in every case. Your routings, work centers and shift calendars have to be accurate before any scheduler produces trustworthy dates, and that work belongs to you regardless of vendor. Enterprise APS deployments also commonly carry separate implementation and annual maintenance fees, which is why a quoted licence figure is rarely the total.