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Getting Started

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  • Getting started with Skyplanner

Video Guides

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  • SkyPlanner: The Basics
  • How to start to use your SkyPlanner trial
  • Introduction to SkyPlanner’s GANTT Timelime
  • What is a Workstation?
  • Add Personnel, User Roles and Default Shifts
  • Workstations, Capacities and Maintenance
  • How to add a Process Step
  • Add a new Product to SkyPlanner
  • Subitems and Production Hierarchy
  • Add a Customer
  • Managing Tools in SkyPlanner
  • Adding and managing Materials
  • Create Orders and Order Items
  • How to Unschedule Orders in the GANTT Timeline
  • Running Timelock
  • JIT Manufacturing in SkyPlanner
  • Fast Track introduction video
  • Reduce Lead Time
  • Prioritize Completion Dates
  • How to use Minimum Degree of Manufacturing
  • Job Priorities
  • Managing Customer Priority
  • How to split Jobs across multiple Workstations
  • Managing Leave Times
  • Manage Overtime
  • Using the CSV Import
  • ShopFloorApp and Timer
  • How to create Workstation Groups
  • What is and how to use the Bulldozer feature
  • What is and how to manage Workstation Efficiencies
  • What is the Quick Log Mode and how to use it
  • Add a quick note to a production process step
  • How to calculate your SkyPlanner Pricing

Integrations

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  • Integration basics
  • Integration tutorial
  • Creating an order
  • Order items
  • Products and materials
  • Scheduled process step timings and workstations
  • Timelogs
  • Workstation/Person exceptions

Gantt Timeline

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  • Introduction to SkyPlanner’s GANTT Timelime
  • How to move a job to another workstation
  • How to get an Order’s task list.
  • User Interface
    • How to see the Job Flow on the GANTT Timeline
    • Turn off Combine overlapping capacities
    • How to highlight Late Jobs
    • How to change the color of a Job Prospect
    • What are Ghost Jobs?
    • How to activate Ghost Jobs in SkyPlanner
    • How to activate Workstation Capacity graph in the GANTT Timeline
    • How to see a Workstation Capacity graph
    • How to activate Show person in running jobs
  • Basic Use
    • Zoom in and Zoom out
    • Current time on the GANTT Timeline
    • Search function on GANTT Timeline
    • Workstage dependencies
    • What is and how to use the Bulldozer feature
    • Job Details in the GANTT Timeline
    • Jobs on the GANTT Timeline
    • Workstations on the GANTT Timeline
    • Add a quick note to a production process step
  • Capacities
    • Capacity on the GANTT Timeline
    • Red Capacity on the GANTT Timeline
    • Blue Capacity on the GANTT Timeline
  • Scheduling
    • How to activate the Automized Reschedule
    • How to Unschedule all my jobs from my GANTT Timeline
    • Unschedule an order item from the GANTT Timeline
    • How to Reschedule only a specific Workstation
  • Workstations and workstation groups
    • How to see a list of a specific Workstation Queue
    • How to show all the Workstations in GANTT Timeline
    • How to hide Workstations in GANTT Timeline
    • How to hide a single Workstation in the GANTT Timeline
    • How to create Workstation Groups
    • What is and how to manage Workstation Efficiencies
    • How to Create a Workstation Group in the GANTT Timeline
    • How to Delete a Workstation Group in the GANTT Timeline
  • Global Rules
    • Running Time Lock
    • How to Change the Default Customer Priority
    • Consider the Materials
    • Consider eligibility dates
    • Dynamic priorities
  • Job Rules
    • How to prohibit changes in an Order 
    • How to add JIT Philosophy in one specific Order
    • How to change the priority to a specific Order
    • How to split Jobs across multiple Workstations
    • Fast Track introduction video
    • Locking a Process Step Job to a Specific Workstation
  • Workstation Rules
    • How to use the Running timelock in one specific workstation
    • Allow moving jobs to other more appropriate workstations
    • How to make a Workstation take a Property into account for scheduling

Resources

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  • Workstations
    • What is a Workstation?
    • How to add a new Workstation
    • How to edit a Workstation
    • How to delete a Workstation
    • How to add a New Shift to a Workstation
    • How to add a Employee Group to a Workstation
    • What is the Quick Log Mode and how to use it
    • Quick Log Mode Introduction
    • What is a Workstation Exception?
    • How to assign Maintenance to a Workstation
    • How to remove Maintenance from a Workstation
    • How to assign Preventive Maintenance to all Workstations
  • Tools
    • How to add Tools
    • How to assign a Tool to a Workstation
    • How to add Maintenance to a Tool
    • How to inform that a Tool is broken?
    • How to add a Tool to a Product
  • Personnel Registry
    • How to Register Personnel
    • Edit an Employee on the Personnel Registry
    • Delete an Employee from the Personnel Registry
  • Customers
    • How to add a New Customer
    • How to edit a Customer
    • How to delete a Customer
    • How to Change the Default Customer Priority
  • Shift Scheduling
    • Shift Scheduling Introduction Video
    • How to add Overtime
    • How to remove Overtime
    • How to change the assigned Person for a Shift on a specific day
  • Personnel Scheduling
    • Personnel Scheduling
  • Default Shifts
    • How to add a Default Shift
    • How to edit a Default Shift
    • How to delete a Default Shift
  • Users
    • How to add a New User
    • Type of User Roles
    • How to edit a User
    • How to delete a User
  • Data Import
    • Using the CSV Import

Orders

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  • Setting and Teardown Times
  • How to add a New Process Step
  • Process Step Completion Degree (Minimum Degree of Manufacture)
  • How to edit a Process Step
  • How to delete a Process Step
  • Assembly Jobs (Batch Production / Nesting)
  • Process step’s Graph Icon: What is it, and what does it do?
  • How to create a New Order
  • How to update a Prospect into an Order
  • What is Price per Unit?
  • Production Quantity and Ordered Quantity 
  • How to Edit Materials in an Order
  • How to change the color of a Job Prospect
  • How to create a Job Prospect 
  • How to edit a job in the GANTT Timeline
  • How to Unschedule Orders in the GANTT Timeline
  • How to edit an Order Item
  • How to create a New Order Item
  • How to edit an Order
  • How to archive an Order
  • How to filter an Order
  • What is and how to use the Purchase orders feature
  • How to edit a Purchase order
  • How to delete a Purchase order
  • How to update the information of a Purchase order item
  • How to delete a Purchase order item

Warehouse

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  • How to create a New Product
  • Sub-Products
  • Minimum Production Quantity
  • How to add Material to an existing Product
  • How to add a Property to a Product
  • How to manage the SkyPlanner’s Warehouse.
  • How to create a new Material
  • How to edit Material information
  • How to deactivate a material
  • How to update a Product
  • How to deactivate a Product
  • How to see a Product’s usage history chart?
  • How to activate a Disabled Product or Material
  • How to create a Transaction
  • How to update a Transaction
  • Inventory Transaction Iconography

ShopFloorApp and Timer

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  • Job report
  • All Timelogs report
  • Order item report
  • ShopFloorApp and Timer
  • How to Start a job in the Timer
  • How to adjust the time on the timer
  • How to change the color for running jobs in the GANTT Timeline
  • Add an Attachment to an Order and How to View It in the Timer
  • How to Disallow multi logging

Support

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  • How to contact Support?
  • How can I get a SkyPlanner Brochure?
  • Can I use SkyPlanner on Mobile version?
  • How to book a meeting with a SkyPlanner specialist
  • How to select your Language in SkyPlanner
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Getting started with Skyplanner

SkyPlanner
Updated on September 9, 2025

1 min read

Welcome to SkyPlanner; we’re glad to have you on board!
This article will give you a quick overview of the software and a practical task list to help you get hands-on in just 30 minutes.

Background #

We created SkyPlanner after seeing a clear pattern in the manufacturing industry. Most companies already had an ERP system managing production orders, but planning all process steps was hard, especially when unexpected changes occurred.

Original goal: Core functionalities same as today #

  •  Create software that would provide a clear visual overview of unfinished process steps along with their relevant details
  •  To keep the plan accurate, SkyPlanner would also integrate real-time status updates from the shop floor.
  • An early request was also manual drag-and-drop scheduling, which we expanded by enabling the software to optimize and reschedule the production plan automatically.

First years: The typical flow looked like this #

  • Production orders were fetched from the ERP
  • Jobs were scheduled in SkyPlanner automatically
  • Using the SkyPlanner timer, real-time data from the shop floor was collected and synced back to the ERP

Now: Warehouse functions and new platform #

  • To help users test the software, we’ve implemented built-in functionalities for managing warehouse data, production orders, and more.
  • SkyPlanner now runs on a modern platform, allowing new users to register and try the software for free.

We are proud to present our software to you; nice to have you on board, and welcome!

Your First 30 Minutes in SkyPlanner #

Because SkyPlanner supports many different industries and workflows, there are many features, views, and settings. Don’t worry; here’s a simple task list to get you started.

Updated on September 9, 2025
Table of Contents
  • Background
    • Original goal: Core functionalities same as today
    • First years: The typical flow looked like this
    • Now: Warehouse functions and new platform
    • Your First 30 Minutes in SkyPlanner
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