What Data EvoAPS Uses
And Where It Fits

EvoAPS is designed to work with the data manufacturers already have — not demand a wholesale system overhaul before value can be delivered.

It fits into your existing planning landscape as a powerful scheduling and decision engine, enhancing what you already use rather than replacing it.

What data EvoAPS needs to get started

At a minimum, EvoAPS requires the same core information used in any realistic production schedule:

  • Resources and work centres
  • Operations, quantities, and run rates
  • Valid routings (where products can be made)

This baseline data allows EvoAPS to generate viable schedules quickly and reliably.

What additional data EvoAPS can take into account

To reflect real-world manufacturing conditions, EvoAPS can also incorporate:

  • Sequence-dependent changeovers
  • Alternative and parallel resources
  • Finite calendars, shift patterns, maintenance, and downtime
  • Material availability and dependencies via Bills of Material (BOMs)
  • Batch, oven, and concurrent-processing resources
  • Multi-operation routings and dependencies
  • Discrete and process manufacturing environments

In short, if your planners consider it when building a schedule today, EvoAPS can model it.

Where EvoAPS fits in your system landscape

EvoAPS is system-agnostic; it does not require you to replace your ERP, MES, or existing planning tools.

Instead, it sits alongside them as a specialist scheduling engine, using data from upstream systems and returning improved schedules and insights back into your operation.

That means EvoAPS can work with:

  • ERP systems
  • MES platforms
  • Existing APS tools
  • Spreadsheet-based planning environments

This makes EvoAPS suitable both for organisations with mature digital landscapes and for those still transitioning away from spreadsheets.

Not a system of record — a decision engine

EvoAPS is not designed to replace ERP or become the system of record; its role is to explore, evaluate, and improve scheduling decisions — faster and more intelligently than manual or rule-based approaches.

Think of EvoAPS as the engine that:

  • Tests scenarios
  • Evaluates trade-offs
  • Supports better decisions

While existing systems remain responsible for execution, transactions, and reporting.

Built for today — ready for what comes next

Delivered as a cloud-based, subscription service, EvoAPS is:

  • Scalable as complexity grows
  • Flexible as processes change
  • Future-ready without large infrastructure overhead

As your business evolves, EvoAPS evolves with it — without locking you into rigid models or outdated assumptions.

In Summary

EvoAPS works with the data you already trust and fits cleanly into the systems you already rely on.

It doesn’t disrupt your landscape, it strengthens it — by giving you better answers, faster, when they matter most.

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