Know why you're ahead or behind plan
Production planners often discover schedule misses hours after they happen, scrambling to find root causes while customer orders pile up.
Schedule Variance Alert
Production behind plan • 3 orders at risk
Built for operations teams
who demand accuracy
Production planners often discover schedule misses hours after they happen, scrambling to find root causes while customer orders pile up.
Production Planners / Schedulers
daily schedule adherence tracking
Plant Managers
operational performance oversight
Operations Directors
multi-plant visibility
Supply Chain Managers
customer order impact assessment
From alert to action in minutes
The objective of this agent is to reduce schedule variance and protect customer delivery.
The Trigger
You define when the agent should activate. When conditions are met, it starts working automatically.
- Real-time alert: Schedule variance exceeds 10% for any work center or production line
- Shift-end review: Automated run at end of each shift to assess daily performance
- Backlog threshold: Work-in-progress (WIP) queue grows beyond 8 hours
360° View
The agent opens a tailored dashboard consolidating data from all your systems.
- Schedule adherence rate — planned versus actual output by line, shift, and product family
- Variance breakdown — units behind (or ahead) by production order
- Root cause categories — hours lost to material shortages, equipment downtime, labor issues, changeover delays
Automated Analysis
The agent follows a structured analysis flow, combining checks with exploratory reasoning.
- Variance detection — Identify production orders running behind schedule and calculate gap in units or hours.
- Root cause classification — For each delayed order, determine primary cause: material shortage, equipment downtime, labor unavailability, or changeover overrun.
- Cause drill-down — For material issues, identify which components are short. For equipment, link to specific downtime events. For labor, check attendance versus plan.
Actionable Output
After analysis, the agent creates a human-friendly report with everything your team needs.
- Executive summary — Overall schedule adherence with variance trend (improving/worsening)
- Variance detail — Production orders behind, hours lost, primary cause per order
- Root cause breakdown — Pareto of causes with quantified hours lost
Delivery
Reports are sent automatically via email or accessed directly in Veezoo.
Key benefits for operations teams
Concrete, measurable value for your team from day one
Faster detection
Before: variance discovered at shift end or next-day review. Now: alerts within minutes of threshold breach.
Clear root causes
Before: hours spent in meetings debating why production missed. Now: causes identified automatically with data.
Customer protection
Quantified order impact lets you prioritize recovery where it matters most, reducing late shipments by 15-30% (example based on typical patterns).
Up and runningin production in weeks
To deploy this Agent, you connect Veezoo to your existing Data Warehouse, typically containing data from:
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Fully customizable to your workflows, data sources, and business requirements.
Typical initial implementation in weeks, not months.