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Compare the Top APS Software as of October 2025

What is APS Software?

Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) software helps manufacturers and supply chain organizations optimize production plans, resource allocation, and scheduling to improve efficiency and reduce lead times. It uses algorithms and real-time data to balance demand, capacity, and material availability across production lines. APS systems integrate with ERP, MES, and supply chain software to create dynamic, data-driven schedules that adapt to changing conditions. These platforms enable planners to visualize bottlenecks, run simulations, and make smarter trade-offs between speed, cost, and resource use. By improving synchronization between planning and execution, APS software enhances agility, productivity, and on-time delivery performance. Compare and read user reviews of the best APS software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Epicor Kinetic

    Epicor Kinetic

    Epicor Software

    Epicor Kinetic is a global, cloud-focused cognitive ERP solution built for manufacturers, driving profitability through real-time insights, people-centric AI, and seamless collaboration. Positioned at the core of your business applications, Kinetic leverages artificial intelligence to extract maximum value from your enterprise data, processes, and decision-making information. Purposely designed with deep industry expertise, it offers end-to-end capabilities for discrete, make-to-order, and mixed-mode manufacturers in the small and mid-market space. Kinetic supports the needs of leading manufacturers across multiple industries, including Industrial Machinery, Fabricated Metals, Electronics and High Tech, Plastics and Rubber, Automotive, Aerospace and Defense, Medical Device, Consumer Products, Furniture and Fixtures, Measuring and Controlling Devices, and more. Embrace future-ready business, digital transformation, and flexible deployment with this singular, AI-powered ERP solution.
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    MRPeasy

    MRPeasy

    MRPeasy

    MRPeasy helps small manufacturers grow with easy-to-use tools that cover all the essentials they need to manage their production. Having built the first cloud-based MRP platform in 2014, we offer user-friendly software-as-a-service that covers everything from production planning to CRM, skipping all the features that are too complex or irrelevant for small manufacturers. This means smaller manufacturers get access to powerful production planning tools, levelling the playing field with larger competitors. With MRPeasy, you know exactly how much your products cost and when they’re ready, helping you to steer your business effectively. MRPeasy integrates with leading accounting software like QuickBooks and Xero and e-commerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce, providing a comprehensive, fully integrated business management solution.
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    Starting Price: $49.00/month/user
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    Katana Cloud Inventory

    Katana Cloud Inventory

    Katana Cloud Inventory

    Katana's Cloud Inventory Platform gives you a centralized view of your inventory to maintain optimal stock levels across all your locations and efficiently track products available for sale. Easily manage incoming orders from all your sales channels and issue purchase orders directly from Katana to ensure restocking at the right time and in the right quantities. Seamlessly integrate Katana with your e-commerce, accounting, and other business software to automate repetitive tasks and get real-time visibility over your daily operations and business performance. Main features: *Real-time inventory insights *Built-in purchase order management *Omnichannel sales management *Manufacturing operations management *Financial visibility and cloud accounting
    Starting Price: $179/month
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    Acumatica Cloud ERP
    Acumatica Cloud ERP provides the best business management solution for transforming your company to thrive in the new digital economy. Through leading-edge technology, best-in-class business functionality, and customer-friendly business practices, Acumatica delivers unparalleled value to small and midmarket organizations. Integrated workflows span the full suite of business management applications, from Financials, Project Accounting, and Inventory Management to CRM. Specialized industry solutions include Construction Edition, Manufacturing Edition, Retail Edition, and Distribution Edition. Acumatica is built on a future-proof platform with open architecture for scalability, ease of use, and rapid integrations. Connected business. Delivered. Rapid integrations. Delivered. Remote collaboration. Delivered. Business resilience. Delivered. Future-proof platform. Delivered.
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    Optessa

    Optessa

    Optessa

    Attribute based planning & scheduling software for enterprise manufacturers. Our automated system allows our customers to reduce the time they spend manually creating schedules by thousands of hours. Our patented optimization engine generates superior plans and schedules that save our customers millions of dollars in production costs per factory. Our rich constraint library allows Optessa to solve a wide variety of complex planning & scheduling challenges, easily integrate with existing legacy systems without the need for custom coding, and easily deploy in many different industries.
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    CyberPlan

    CyberPlan

    Cybertec - Zucchetti

    Get full control of your planning process with a tool that allows you to plan and schedule the manufacturing process in a way that lets you avoid wastes and allows you to always have the correct raw materials at the right moment in the right place. Increase service level, reduce time losses, increase productivity, avoid missing materials and get full control of your supply chain. Get this results with CyberPlan, the Advanced Planning and Scheduling Software (APS) used by the leading manufacturing companies to plan their productions on a daily basis. It is used to plan and schedule the production of manufacturing companies that want to be competitive and to have full control of their supply chain. Companies in MTS, ATO, MTO and ETO production enviroments are benefitting from such solution, even in the most complex productions that engineer extremely complicated product accordingly to the customer requests down to the companies making CPG.
    Starting Price: 1.500 USD
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    VT-APS

    VT-APS

    Shanghai Qingkun Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.

    Provide VT-APS intelligent scheduling/scheduling system based on the multi-objective optimization engine realized by cutting-edge artificial intelligence algorithms, filling the domestic APS no core technology (some are imported algorithms), and the core technology of our products is absolutely leading to ensure the competitive advantage of the products. VT-APS provides manufacturing companies with a stronger heart - optimized production planning, so that enterprise APS is no longer inapplicable. The system provides a total of 40 scheduling objective functions in 13 categories, allowing customers to arbitrarily combine multiple scheduling goals according to their own needs to adapt to diversified scheduling needs.
    Starting Price: Negotiable
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    Access Orchestrate
    Manage the real-life complexity of production planning in a clear and visual way. Our advanced planning and scheduling (APS) software, Access Orchestrate, shows you how to make the most effective use of your resources, for greater productivity and better-informed decisions. Access Orchestrate ensures that you are utilizing every machine, employee, and resource to its full capacity. Production plans can be changed quickly and easily, and are visible to the right people at the right time. You can analyze capacity and test different scenarios to answer ‘what if’ questions and identify issues before they occur. Our production scheduling software saves time, reduces waste, and prevents errors while improving communication between teams. Identify production bottlenecks before they happen and use the drag and drop Gantt chart functionality to easily adjust the production plan to ensure timescales can still be delivered.
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    Smart Factory

    Smart Factory

    eWorkplace Manufacturing

    Smart Factory is a manufacturing operations management (MOM) solution that empowers manufacturers to optimize operations and increase productivity. Smart Factory MOM is the cloud-based modular, configurable, plug-and-play manufacturing solution that possesses advanced scheduling (APS) and manufacturing execution system (MES) capabilities. It integrates scheduling, production, resource management, training, analytics, and quality management activities in a single solution, enabling manufacturers to optimize their manufacturing workflow. Smart Factory MOM supports more than 100 drivers, 80 devices or brands and 100 communication protocols, enabling automated data capture from machines and other devices and providing seamless connectivity for Industry 4.0.
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