Smart planning with TOF Planner AI

Every company has challenges regarding planning limited resources like skilled employees, machines, vehicles, and raw materials. We help you solve them with our smart planning solution: TOF Planner AI.

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Deliver better results with smart planning

Global trends are reshaping how businesses develop products and deliver services. In this fast-changing landscape, efficient planning is key to staying agile and seizing new opportunities as they arise.

Strong planning boosts productivity and reduces wasted time, money, and resources. Smart planning takes it a step further by optimizing your planning based on the available tasks and resources, taking into account business rules and priorities. This helps you navigate new opportunities and challenges with confidence and stay ahead of the competition.

Our Smart Planning Solution: TOF Planner AI

Our TOF Planner AI empowers you to overcome challenges and seize new opportunities while optimizing smart planning to align with your goals. Below are some of today’s key trends and challenges, and how TOF Planner AI helps address them:

Adapt to changing demands

Today’s consumers expect fast, high-quality, and personalized service.

TOF Planner AI helps you match demand with supply in real time. Quickly adapt to changes, simulate scenarios, and update plans on the fly.

Enable Sustainable Operations

Sustainability is a growing priority for both businesses and customers.

Use TOF Planner AI to boost resource efficiency, reduce waste, minimize travel, and cut CO₂ emissions, all while meeting ESG goals.

Support and Retain Employees

With skilled labor in short supply, keeping your employees satisfied is key.

TOF Planner AI considers individual preferences like work hours and travel limits, helping prevent burnout and reducing turnover.

Make Data-Driven Decisions

Complex planning often involves huge volumes of diverse data.

TOF Planner AI enhances decision-making by identifying trends, optimizing resource allocation, and flagging risks, giving you powerful insights.

Core Concepts of TOF Planner AI

TOF Planner AI creates its’ optimized schedules based on:

Tasks

A time-sensitive activity such as a work order, production job, or service request.

Resources

A person, machine, vehicle, or material with specific capabilities to complete a task.

Business Rules

Operational constraints that must be followed, including legal, procedural, or preference-based rules.

Priorities

Define what your planning should optimize for, such as minimizing downtime or improving resource utilization.

TOF PLannerAI App showcasing the user interface

CUSTOMER CASE

A large, international manufacturer of elevators uses TOF Planner AI to assign the right elevator mechanics to maintain and service their elevators worldwide. Through smart IoT-sensors, they know which elevators and which parts need to be serviced and when.

TOF Planner AI helps this customer prevent elevator downtime and provide better services to its customers, while minimizing travel distances and CO2 emissions.

TOF Planner AI Use Cases

TOF Planner AI optimizes scheduling and resource planning across your operations, from workforce and production to field service and logistics. Boost efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver better outcomes with intelligent, AI-powered planning.

Workforce Planner

Streamline employee scheduling across shifts, teams, and job sites with integrated tools and resource planning.

Assign staff individually or in groups, factoring in vehicles, tools, and skills.
Match employee certifications, availability, and customer-specific needs.
Run scenario simulations (e.g., peak periods) and assess financial impact.

Production Line Planner

Maximize factory efficiency by aligning production schedules with real-time resources.

Plan across lines and operators using live order and inventory data.
Integrate with ERP, CRM, MES/MOM systems for seamless coordination.
Enable product traceability with RFID and IoT integrations.

Field Service Planning

Optimize field operations and react quickly to emergencies and service disruptions.

Integrate with ERP to manage Digital Work Orders and BOMs.
Use IoT for predictive maintenance and real-time updates.
Leverage data to predict task duration, travel time, and stay within SLA limits.

Vehicle Routing

Plan smarter delivery routes to reduce downtime, travel time, fuel use, and emissions.

Optimize delivery routes for single or multi-drop logistics.
Factor in real-time traffic, vehicle types, and cargo dimensions.
Integrate with IoT/RFID for live vehicle tracking, condition monitoring, and automated loading/unloading.