What-If Analysis for Job Shops
What-if analysis built for the reality of job shops: high mix and low volume — every job is essentially custom, customer expedites override planned sequence daily, and profitability per job hidden until completed. Generic what-if analysis ignores these constraints. We built ours around them — for 35+ years.
Why Job shops Need What-If Analysis That Understands Their Floor
Job shops is not generic high mix. Every job shop decision is shaped by high mix and low volume — every job is essentially custom, every order is shaped by customer expedites override planned sequence daily, and every weekly plan gets disrupted by profitability per job hidden until completed. Off-the-shelf what-if analysis tools were built for a textbook model of manufacturing that does not survive contact with a real job shops floor. Our what-if analysis starts from the constraints — branch the live schedule into a scenario without affecting production, modeled the way job shops actually run them.
- High mix and low volume — every job is essentially custom
- Customer expedites override planned sequence daily
- Profitability per job hidden until completed
- Capacity commitments made before complete routings exist
How Our What-If Analysis Works for Job Shops
What-If Analysis is a finite-capacity-aware scheduling engine purpose-built for the messiness of real manufacturing. For job shops — including general job shops — it handles high mix and low volume — every job is essentially custom, customer expedites override planned sequence daily, and profitability per job hidden until completed in a single Gantt-driven interface planners can actually use. Below is what that looks like in practice.
- Branch the live schedule into a scenario without affecting production
- Compare scenarios side-by-side on key metrics
- Test capacity changes, customer expedites, and machine outages
- Promote a scenario to the live schedule with one click
What Job shops Get From What-If Analysis
Outcome 1
Make scheduling decisions with data, not intuition
Outcome 2
Show customers the cost of an expedite before committing
Outcome 3
Test capacity investments before signing the PO
Related Resources
Job Shops planners often combine what-if analysis with these adjacent capabilities:
Job Shops What-If Analysis FAQ
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