At a strategic level, APS Planning is a cross-enterprise production planning system. It deals with multi-variety, small-batch and strongly capacitated resource planning problems, subject to constraints and enterprise rules such as minimal/maximal resource capacity, purchase/stock/production, transport time, order and resource priorities, etc. For both customers and suppliers, the system generates collaborative production schedules with less delays, low costs and balanced resource allocations.

Deployed at cloud, the optimization server can be integrated seamlessly with peripheral systems such as MES and ERP for cloud manufacturing.