Navicon PlanEngine

Main article: APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) - synchronous planning system

2025: Navicon PlanEngine Introduction

Navicon launched Navicon PlanEngine, a manufacturing and supply planning solution. The product seamlessly integrates with any IBP system through an open API and allows you to solve problems in the field of improving the efficiency of integrated business planning. The developer announced this on June 30, 2025.

After the departure of foreign platforms of prescriptive analytics, such as IBM CPLEX, Gurobi, FICO, many companies faced difficulties in choosing alternative domestic solutions. Free, open-source solvers are inefficient at solving complex planning problems, especially when processing large amounts of data and working with tiered production chains. In turn, there were no full-fledged universal box products on the market.

To solve optimization problems, businesses had to install additional products that only complicated the current IT infrastructure and did not provide the required level of speed and flexibility in planning processes. Therefore, the Navicon team has released its own intelligent product - a set of algorithms for automated production planning right inside the client's IBP system.

The IT solution seamlessly interacts with any IBP platform through an open API. It fits harmoniously into the current IT infrastructure and does not require significant restructuring of business processes and retraining of employees. Business retains the usual working tools.

Navicon PlanEngine, using advanced mathematical methods, allows you to solve tasks in minutes that would take the company's specialists weeks. The timing of the formation of plans is reduced tenfold. At the same time, the solution is easily customized to the specifics of specific production processes of the customer and can be finalized at the initial stages taking into account the needs of the business.

Navicon PlanEngine significantly reduces development costs. This eliminates the need to choose between two extremes - adapting a rigid boxed solution to suit your processes or creating a system from scratch. Instead, the client receives already tested industry developments that our specialists adapt to specific business processes, - said Yulia Romanova, head of the IBP department at Navicon. - Moreover, if the client does not have its own planning system, we are ready to develop a fully customized solution - from the user interface to integration with existing tools and platforms.

The optimizer will be useful for large manufacturing enterprises, where manual planning becomes inefficient due to the large amount of data and complex production chains. This, first of all, is a FMCG pharmaceutical industry mechanical engineering high rate of change in these industries, and even minor planning errors can significantly affect key business indicators.