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Does Visma Net Have Finite Capacity Scheduling? Kit Assembly vs SkyPlanner APS
No. Visma Net, formerly Visma.net ERP, has no production scheduling, finite or infinite. It has no routings, work centers, production orders or capacity planning. Visma Nova, Visma L7 and Visma Business are separate products. Its production function is Kit assembly: a document that records which components became a finished item, on one date. Manufacturers that need a real schedule run SkyPlanner APS beside Visma Net.
How Visma Net handles production, step by step
1. Functional areas and logistics groups
Visma’s functional overview lists the core, financials, monitoring and automation, the Inventory module and Project management. The Inventory module covers Inventory, Sales orders and Purchase orders, in Standard logistics and Advanced logistics groups.
Production appears once. Under Advanced logistics, kit assembly “Makes possible the creation of kit specifications and kit assembly and disassembly according to specifications.” Inventory replenishment sits in the same group and also needs Multiple warehouses. There is no manufacturing area.
2. Marking an item as a kit
A kit is an ordinary item with Is a kit selected on the General settings tab of Stock items (IN202500) or Non-stock items (IN202000). The item class can default lot, serial and expiration settings for kit production or sale.
3. Kit specifications (IN209500)
The Kit specifications window is the bill of materials. Per kit revision it holds:
- Stock components and Non-stock components with quantities
- whether component quantity may vary, with minimum and maximum
- whether components may be added or substituted
Labor is modeled as a non-stock component of type Labour, so it is a cost, not a time on a resource. Revisions are locked once used, and Visma states: “For creating kits, only the last revision can be used.” (source)
4. Kit assembly (IN307000)
The Kit assembly document is the closest thing to a production order. It carries:
| Field | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Type | Production or Disassembly |
| Ref. no. and Status | On hold, Balanced or Released |
| Date | “The date when the kit assembly document was created.” |
| Warehouse, kit item, revision, quantity | Where and what is built |
| Component lines | Stock and non-stock components, lot and serial allocations |
A kit assembly can be created from a line in Sales orders (SO301000), which keeps a link back. Release decreases component stock, increases kit stock and posts a general ledger batch. The kit cost is the component cost plus Labour and Service rates times quantity. Assembly picklist (IN30701S) and Assembly confirmation (IN30702S) print the paperwork.
5. Inventory replenishment
Prepare replenishment (IN508000) uses replenishment classes, safety stock, reorder points, maximum quantities and forecasts. It generates purchase and transfer orders. Visma: “Replenishment for stock items is performed on a per-warehouse basis.” (source) It does not propose assembly orders.
6. Projects and time cards
The Projects add-on brings Projects (PM301000), Project tasks (PM302000) and budgets. Employee time card (EP305000) records hours. In Visma’s words: “A time card is a weekly report on time spent on each activity.” Time cards need Advanced financials. (source)
7. Automation schedules are not production schedules
Automation schedules (SM205020) run background jobs such as releasing and posting documents. Searches for “Visma Net production scheduling” often land here, but it plans no production. (source)
What Visma Net leaves to a production system
- No manufacturing area. The functional overview lists kit assembly as the only production-related function.
- No routing or operation. A kit specification lists components. There is no sequence of steps, no setup time and no run time.
- No resources or calendars. Visma Net has no work center, machine, resource group or shop calendar. Employees exist for HR and time reporting, warehouses for stock.
- One date, no duration. The kit assembly date is the document creation date. Nothing says when the work starts, ends or where it runs.
- No capacity check anywhere. Replenishment plans purchasing per warehouse, and no function compares work with available hours.
- Weekly time, not per job. Time cards report hours per activity per week, which is too coarse to track a job on the floor.
- Component quantities are editable. “The calculated quantities can be manually adjusted,” so the specification is a default, not a check. (source)
Visma itself treats production planning as a separate system. Its Norwegian industry page lists production management (“Produksjonsstyring”) among the systems Visma Net is built to work with.
In practice, the plan lives in a spreadsheet, and Visma Net records the assembly once it is done.
When Visma Net is enough
Kit assembly from the sales order does the job when:
- You assemble to order in one step, with no machines and no shared resources.
- You are mainly a trading company with light value-added work such as packing or bundling, and capacity never limits you.
- You are a very small shop that plans on a whiteboard and needs Visma Net only for stock and the cost of assembled goods.
When you need a finite capacity scheduler
You have outgrown kit assembly when several of these are true:
- Products pass through several machines or work phases, not one assembly bench.
- Delivery dates slip because nobody sees the load on each machine.
- Changeover time depends on which product ran before.
- People, shifts and absences limit output, and some jobs need two or three operators.
- Molds, dies or fixtures are shared between machines.
- Material arrival decides which job can start.
- Rush orders and breakdowns force a replan several times a week.
What to look for
- Routings held in the scheduler. Visma Net has none, so process steps, setup and run times must live in the scheduler.
- All resources finite at once: machines, people and tools.
- A setting time matrix with sequence-dependent, asymmetric changeovers, used to minimize total setup.
- Tools as finite shared resources and multi-operator jobs.
- Material-aware scheduling that reads Visma Net stock and incoming purchase orders.
- Automatic rescheduling when production or orders change, on a visual Gantt timeline.
- Write-back Visma Net understands: a created and released Kit assembly, or inventory receipts and issues.
- A current connection: the Visma Net API with Visma Connect and webhooks.
The options fall into four groups:
- Spreadsheets and whiteboards, maintained by hand.
- Visual planning boards that turn orders into cards for a planner to drag.
- Enterprise APS suites connected through a long project and run by a planning team.
- Cloud APS with shop-floor execution, where SkyPlanner sits. It schedules every resource automatically, replans as production changes and puts the queue in operators’ hands.
Where SkyPlanner fits
SkyPlanner APS supplies the production layer Visma Net leaves out. Process steps, workstations, workstation groups and efficiencies live in SkyPlanner, built on your Visma Net items and Kit specifications. The Arcturus AI engine produces a finite capacity schedule in seconds and sequences it by job priority, completion date, customer priority, Fast Track and Dynamic Priorities.
Its setting time matrix holds the changeover time between each pair of products in both directions, and the engine picks the order with the least setup. Tools are finite shared resources, a job can need several operators at once, and the engine moves work to alternative machines or people when the first choice is unavailable.
Material-driven scheduling simulates future inventory from Visma Net stock and open purchase orders. Ordered material counts as available on its delivery date, so work is planned only when material is there.
Autopilot reschedules automatically when production changes, within your locks and priorities. Running Time Lock keeps running jobs in place. Operators see their queue and log work with Mobile Confirmations, Production Timer and Quick Log Mode, and finished jobs go back to Visma Net as released Kit assemblies.
Choose SkyPlanner when your products pass through machines and work phases that Visma Net has no object for.
Choose SkyPlanner when changeovers, shared tools or multi-operator jobs decide what can run next.
Choose SkyPlanner when you replan several times a week and want a working schedule of your own production in weeks, not after a long project.
Start with a CSV or Excel export in the 30-day free trial (up to 20 workstations, no credit card). After that, pricing is from 199 € per month with 5 workstations included, billed monthly. The integration is quoted up front for your process and needs, together with your plan, so you see the full cost before you start. Implementation is normally completed within weeks after onboarding starts.
SkyPlanner integrates with Visma Net in both directions over the Visma Net API. The SkyPlanner team configures the integration during onboarding and supports it after go-live. Your Visma Net partner or in-house developers can also build on the documented REST API (API reference).
Read the SkyPlanner for Visma Net overview, the Visma Net integration guide, or browse other ERPs in the ERP integrations hub.
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FAQ
Does Visma Net have a production planning module?
No. Visma’s functional overview has no manufacturing area, and Visma’s Finnish price list has no production package. The production-related function is Kit specifications and Kit assembly in Advanced logistics. Production planning runs in a separate system such as SkyPlanner APS.
Can a Visma Net Kit assembly work as a production order?
As a record, yes. It holds the kit item, revision, warehouse, quantity and components, and releasing it posts output and consumption. It has no operations, resources or planned times, so it cannot carry a schedule.
Does Visma Net have MRP?
Not for production. Inventory replenishment suggests purchase and transfer orders per warehouse from reorder points, safety stock and forecasts. It never proposes assembly orders or checks capacity.
Which Visma Net functionality do we need for kit assembly?
Advanced logistics. Kit assembly and Inventory replenishment both sit in that group, and replenishment also needs Multiple warehouses. On Standard logistics, finished output is posted with Inventory receipt and Inventory issue instead.
How does SkyPlanner APS connect to Visma Net?
Over the Visma Net API with Visma Connect authorization, in both directions. Stock items, Kit specifications, sales orders, stock and purchase orders come in. Finished jobs go back as released Kit assemblies, and logged hours as time cards.
Can I test SkyPlanner before integrating it with Visma Net?
Yes. Export open sales orders and stock items from Visma Net, import them during the 30-day trial and compare the schedule with your current plan. See pricing, start the trial or talk to sales.
