Faster scheduling decisions,
built on Kinaxis ES
Optium Solutions helps manufacturers implement Kinaxis Enterprise Scheduling and get real value from it — turning hours of scheduling work into minutes, and giving your team one trusted view of the shop floor production schedule.
Running Your Plant on
Spreadsheets and Tribal Knowledge?
Most manufacturers we talk to are scheduling the same way they were ten years ago: disconnected spreadsheets stitched together with institutional memory. It works, until it doesn't.
Siloed Spreadsheets
Planning, purchasing, and the shop floor each work off their own version of the schedule — updated manually, rarely in sync, and never a single source of truth.
Tribal Knowledge Risk
The real scheduling logic lives in one or two people's heads — which machine runs which job best, which customers can't slip. When they retire or leave, that knowledge walks out with them.
High WIP & Excess Stock
Without a schedule that reflects real constraints, plants build buffer into everything — tying up cash in work-in-process and inventory that shouldn't be there.
Missed Deliveries & Floor Delays
Plans that don't account for tooling, labor, and machine constraints break down in execution — creating stops, starts, and firefighting, so commitments slip and customer service suffers.
Built on Kinaxis Maestro
We don't spread ourselves across a dozen products.
Kinaxis Enterprise Scheduling is where our expertise lives, and it's our primary focus.
A concurrent scheduling platform that turns plant-specific processes into a measurable, visual, shared view across the organization — built to scale across plants and sites, not a point solution bolted onto one line. We implement it, configure it, and train your team to run it with confidence.
From Readiness to Sustained Value
Every engagement is led by people who have run scheduling operations themselves, not generalist consultants learning the platform alongside you.
Readiness Assessment
A fixed-scope engagement evaluating scheduling maturity, data and systems landscape, and organizational readiness, with a prioritized roadmap for implementation.
Enterprise Scheduling Implementation
End-to-end deployment of Kinaxis ES covering production scheduling, process design, go-live, and hypercare.
Scheduling Process Design
We redesign planning and scheduling workflows to align with what ES can actually do, closing the gap between how work gets planned and how it really happens.
Training & Enablement
Role-based training for planners, schedulers, and operations managers built to drive real adoption, not just a successful go-live date.
Post-Go-Live Optimization
Ongoing advisory support to tune the solution, expand adoption, and keep the schedule trustworthy as your operation changes.
Broader Kinaxis Platform Services
As our Kinaxis partnership grows, we're expanding into adjacent planning capabilities across the Maestro platform. More to come.
A Clear Path From Kickoff to Go-Live
Every engagement follows the same proven path. Scope and pace are tailored to your operation, not a one-size-fits-all timeline.
Assess
Readiness assessment covering scheduling maturity, systems landscape, and organizational fit.
Blueprint
Future-state process design and ES configuration mapped to your operation.
Implement
Configuration, testing, training, and a managed go-live with hypercare support.
Optimize
Ongoing tuning and adoption support after go-live, as your operation evolves.
Built for Complex Manufacturing
Discrete and process manufacturers with moderate-to-high planning complexity — multi-step production, constrained capacity, high mix, or complex batch scheduling. Our team's experience spans 15+ manufacturing industries.
Aerospace & Defense
Long-lead components, engineer-to-order complexity, and multi-site production coordination across programs with little schedule slack.
Food & Beverage
Complex batch scheduling, shelf-life and expiration constraints, allergen changeover requirements, and high-mix lines running on razor-thin timing windows.
Medical Device & Pharmaceutical
Regulated environments, strict validation and serialization requirements, lot traceability, and demand volatility that leaves little room for scheduling error.
15+ Other Industries
Multi-plant, multi-site operations with constrained capacity and variable demand. Automotive, consumer products, fiber-optic cabling, electronics, & more.
When Conditions Change, These Are What Hold
Supply shifts. Tariffs change overnight. Labor availability moves week to week. Equipment goes down without warning. A schedule that only works until the first disruption isn't a schedule — it's a snapshot. Here's what Enterprise Scheduling protects when things move, and how.
Plan Attainment
When sourcing, cost, or material availability changes overnight, the schedule recognizes & responds to it — so the plan your team commits to is still the plan they can actually run.
On-Time Delivery
(OTD / OTIF)
Constraint-aware scheduling accounts for who's actually on the floor today, not who was scheduled two weeks ago — so delivery commitments hold even when staffing shifts.
Throughput & Utilization
When a line goes down, the schedule reroutes work across remaining capacity in minutes — keeping utilization high instead of waiting on a time-consuming, manual re-scheduling process.
Manufacturing Lead Time
Schedules flex with real demand instead of a stale forecast, closing the gap between order and execution rather than widening it.
Learn More From Kinaxis
A couple of official Kinaxis resources worth a look if you want to go deeper on the platform itself.
Kinaxis Enterprise Scheduling — Product Brochure
An official Kinaxis overview of the Enterprise Scheduling platform — capabilities, positioning, and how it fits within Kinaxis Maestro.
Download the BrochureHow Reckitt Unlocked the Power of Enterprise Scheduling
A Kinaxis-published case study on Reckitt's Enterprise Scheduling implementation. This engagement was delivered by Kinaxis, not Optium — shared here as an example of the platform in action.
Read the Case StudyBuilt by Practitioners, Not Generalists
Our team brings decades worth of implementation experience with advanced planning and scheduling platforms, including engineers who started their careers as planners and schedulers themselves.
Purpose-Built for Kinaxis ES
We're not a generalist systems integrator dabbling in a new product. Optium is the first Kinaxis partner built exclusively around Enterprise Scheduling. It's our primary focus.
Decades of Real Delivery Experience
Our team has led APS implementations across many discrete and process manufacturing industries, managing global teams of engineers, not just selling software.
Outcomes, Not Just Deployments
You get a working, optimized schedule fully integrated into how your team operates, not a system that goes live and gets ignored three months later.
A Partner, Not a Vendor
Small team, high engagement, direct access to senior expertise throughout — every client works directly with the people who've actually done this before.
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