FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What CPG Scheduler is, who it’s for, and how it fits the way a production floor actually runs.
- What is CPG Scheduler?
- Production-planning software for consumer-packaged-goods and food-and-beverage manufacturers. It forecasts demand, schedules production runs, tracks inventory and par levels, and flags stockout and changeover risk before they reach the floor — so the daily plan holds up against reality.
- Who is it for?
- Operators, production planners, and floor managers who own the daily plan at a CPG or food-and-beverage facility — the people deciding what to run, when, and in what sequence.
- How does it help prevent stockouts?
- It projects coverage for every SKU against live velocity and current on-hand, surfaces the SKUs trending below their reorder point, and raises operational alerts — stockout risk, data staleness, runs due — while the fix is still a routine scheduling decision instead of an emergency.
- Does it handle production scheduling and changeovers?
- Yes. It schedules runs against each line's capacity, minimum run gaps, crew, and blackout windows, and flags when a proposed sequence is quietly costing you capacity — a changeover that buys nothing, a cluster about to blow a due date — before you commit to it.
- Can I run it without the dashboard — headless?
- Yes. Production planning is decision-work that rarely needs a screen, so CPG Scheduler is operable headlessly: you point your own AI agent at our Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with a token you mint, and it reads your live plan and acts on it — no GUI required.
- Can an AI agent use it?
- Yes — your own agent, acting as you, on your organization's data. You mint a scoped, revocable token in your profile and grant exactly the read and write scopes you want; the agent can never do anything you couldn't do yourself, and never one scope more. It is first-party access for your own agent, not a public or third-party API.
- Is my data private and secure?
- Your data is organization-isolated. Agent tokens are scoped, expiring, stored only as a one-way hash, and revocable instantly, and every read or write runs with your own permissions on your own organization's data. Nobody you didn't authorize gets near your plan.
- What data do I need to bring?
- Your SKUs, current on-hand inventory, and recent sales or velocity data. The coverage projections and scheduling run against what you upload, so fresh inputs are the one thing that matters most — the math is only as current as the numbers behind it.
- How do I get started?
- Access is invite-based for an organization's authenticated users. Try the live demo to see it in action, or contact your administrator to get access to your facility's environment.