Epicflow vs Seiki Advanced Planning and Scheduling

Epicflow is a multi-project resource and portfolio management solution for planning and controlling work across projects. Its Pipeline gives an overview of projects and milestones and helps teams assess feasibility and deadlines. Capacity planning forecasts resource demand and output, analyzes workload, and helps prevent bottlenecks; what-if simulations let users consider project changes. The listed capabilities include task dependencies, a Gantt view, resource management, time tracking, and AI priority recommendations. Ready-made integrations are listed for Microsoft Project, Jira, and Oracle Primavera, with custom integrations available for project, resource, or HRM systems. Epicflow says its DataGuard cloud service can analyze project information while company data stays on premises. Its security page states GDPR compliance, ISO 27001-certified data centres, and penetration testing to British MOD standards. Growth costs €22.50 per user per month, billed annually, or €25.00 per user per month, billed monthly; both options cover 20 to 50 users, up to 50 projects, and a maximum of 250 tasks. A 30-day trial is available, with unlimited users and a weekly 30-minute support call. Enterprise pricing is on request and its listed capacity starts at 50 users, with unlimited projects and 2000+ tasks.

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.