Weekly planner · Ireland
Food production planning software for Irish producers. Plan the week your factory will actually run.
In our experience, Irish food producers plan the week on a whiteboard or in a spreadsheet that lives on one PC in the production office. It works until someone is on holiday, an order changes on Tuesday afternoon, or a customer drops a same-day add-on. Keystone's weekly planner is the single live view of capacity, commitments, ageing-ready stock and short-dated stock — for the production manager who has 30 seconds before the next call.
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Proof points
In one glance.
- Drag-and-drop batches across the week, per line and per day
- Capacity vs. customer commitments rendered live — no manual reconciliation
- Ageing-aware: shows what is dispatch-eligible this week vs next
- One-click lock & dispatch — sends the week to production
The hidden cost of spreadsheet planning
The planner who knows everything becomes a single point of failure.
If your weekly plan only exists on Sarah's laptop, your operation has a vulnerability worth protecting. When Sarah is sick, on annual leave, or has stepped out for an hour, the plan is invisible to everyone else. The result is the same in every food factory we have walked into: production reacts to the last phone call instead of executing a plan, dispatch lurches, customer service apologises, and Sarah burns out.
What the Keystone planner does
One view that survives a sick day.
- Per-line, per-day capacity — Configure your real line capacity. The planner shows committed minutes vs available minutes per day, per line. Overcommit is visible immediately.
- Customer commitments overlay — Open sales orders, standing orders and forecasted demand surface on the same planner — no separate spreadsheet for the sales pipeline.
- Ageing-aware availability — For cheese, charcuterie, fermented and aged products: only batches whose ageing window has completed appear as dispatch-eligible this week.
- Conflict auto-flagging — Insufficient milk, no QC slot, ageing breach, allergen-shared line, retailer cut-off missed — every conflict is flagged before you lock the week.
- Lock & dispatch — Once the week is right, lock it. Production sees their schedule. Dispatch sees the pick list. QA sees the QC checkpoints. No more re-keying.
How it integrates
Sits next to your accounts package, not on top of it.
Keystone publishes invoiced sales to AccountsIQ, Sage, Xero or QuickBooks when an order dispatches. The planner is operational only — capacity, commitments, batches — not financial. Your finance team is unaffected.
FAQs
Frequently asked.
What about Mondays after a bank-holiday weekend?
Capacity calendars handle bank holidays, planned maintenance and seasonal shutdowns. You can roll a week forward in two clicks — commitments re-balance automatically.
Can different sites have different planners?
Yes — on the Plus licence (€1,290/month), each site has its own planner with cross-site batch transfer if you need it.
How does this compare to a full MRP module?
Full MRP is overkill for most artisan and mid-market food producers — it assumes long, deterministic supply chains. Keystone's planner is a real-week, real-line operational planner — closer to how you actually run.
Is this a replacement for our ERP?
No. Keep your accounts package. The planner is where Excel currently lives — that is what it replaces.
Can dispatch staff see what they will be packing tomorrow?
Yes — once the week is locked, dispatch gets a per-day pick list with batch numbers, customer SKU codes and pallet-label slots already allocated.