Asprova APS vs Seiki Advanced Planning and Scheduling

Asprova APS creates production schedules for factories and manufacturers, integrating sales, manufacturing, inventory, and purchasing plans across multiple items and processes. Its synchronized planning and capacity tools use standard times down to the second and can account for individual machines, molds, and personnel. Planners can create multiple scenarios, adjust parts of an existing plan manually, and reschedule. Charts and graphs show line overloads, delivery delays, and load differences by day, week, or month. Asprova connects to relational database tables and CSV files; users can configure mappings and differential imports and exports. The maker says it can integrate with most ERP, production management, MES, shop floor control, and legacy systems. Optional modules include Sales, Purchasing, KPI, Time Constraint MAX, Resource Lock, Event, and Optimization. The product is paid, with pricing on request; implementation, training, consultation, and integration may add costs. A trial edition can be used with e-learning exercises, but no trial duration is stated. It is self-hosted Windows software. The maker says a maintenance contract is required to upgrade Asprova.

Seiki Advanced Planning and Scheduling, also called Seiki Scheduler, builds manufacturing production plans around actual capacity to balance delivery dates and workload. It schedules operations against available resources and supports real-time adjustments. An interactive graphical planning board summarizes active order loading and operation details, while built-in sequencing rules provide a baseline that planners can refine. Users can model schedule changes and compare saved snapshots before choosing a plan; running scenarios and saving snapshots for evaluation requires the optional Simulation license. Seiki EAI connects the scheduler to ERP, MRP, PLM, and other databases, with one-way or bidirectional transfer. SQL views and CSV files are described as import methods. The Scheduler can also operate without ERP, using manually entered works orders and routing templates. It supports finite-capacity scheduling, machine and labor capacity planning, and material constraints. Seiki says it can handle tens of thousands of operations, though saving changes takes longer as the database grows. It is licensed per resource, with no stated cap on resource count. Seiki AIR runs in a browser and supports self-hosted web server or Microsoft IIS deployment; Windows is also listed. Pricing is available on request.