ETO Project Manufacturing

Manage your ETO projects in one cloud platform

Complete process integration, real-time insight, and better outcomes for ETO manufacturers

PlanAutomate delivers an all-in-one ETO project management platform that integrates your entire business. All built on Microsoft Dynamics and the Azure cloud.

Enhance visibility

Improve planning

Streamline procurement & production

Optimize fulfillment processes

Projects drive your manufacturing. They should drive your business system too.

What do you manufacture?

Equipment, machinery, electronics, biotech products, engines, pharmaceuticals, planes, trains, ships? If you do it through projects, you are a project business.

For engineer-to-order project and contract manufacturers, projects are the center of your business, but they are not the center of your business system. You need to reorient the way you run your business by make projects the core of your processes and systems so they drive everything.

Connect and manage your entire business from end-to-end with PlanAutomate:

  • The project drives your business 
  • The project drives your supply chain
  • The project drives your production

Automatically Align Your Projects with Your Supply Chain & Production

PlanAutomate ensures seamless integration between your project schedules and budgets and your supply chain operations, including procurement and production, keeping everything aligned for optimal efficiency.

Automated Material Planning

Project schedules automatically inform Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to ensure timely procurement, production, and delivery.

Real-Time Supply Chain Visibility

Track material availability and delivery progress in real time to prevent delays.

Replan with Material Constraints Built in

As your project schedule changes, your supply chain constraints are always visible so you can plan accordingly.

Seamless Procurement & Production Integration

Link project requirements directly to purchasing and production activities for streamlined sourcing.

Explore our project automation capabilities

Project Modeling

Revolutionize the way you build projects: Faster and with more Control.

Build complex projects in minutes instead of hours, days, or even longer.

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High-Performance Project Scheduling

Capable for even the biggest, most complex projects.

A robust, high-performance cloud-based scheduling engine that can seamlessly manage projects with thousands of tasks, resources, and dependencies spanning multiple years.

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Project-Driven Supply Chain

Seamless coordination of production and procurement with your projects.

ETO manufacturers, construction, and various project businesses that depend on accurate and timely delivery of materials need a project-driven supply chain.

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Schedule-Driven Estimation

Seamlessly Connect Your Project Schedule with Estimation & Budgeting

In complex projects, accurate estimation is everything. PlanAutomate ensures your estimates aren’t just guesses—they’re built directly from your project schedule.

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Schedule-Driven Month End

Precise Financial Control

Seamlessly integrate project schedules with financial data, ensuring real-time visibility into cost and revenue numbers.

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Project Autopilot

Intelligent Automated Oversight for Projects

Project Autopilot provides an intelligent, automated monitoring system that continuously scans project data for risks, anomalies, and deviations—giving project leaders real-time insights and proactive alerts before problems escalate.

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Project Organizational Structure (POS)

Governance & Control for Project Success

A built-in governance framework designed to help you automatically structure projects, manage stakeholders, and streamline decision-making.

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Executive Performance Scorecard

Clear Oversight of Project Business Success

For executives leading project-driven organizations, understanding business performance at a glance is critical.

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Are You Ready for Transformation?

Before you delve into Project Automation, get your project organization ready for a successful transformation. Our How to Prepare for Project Automation Transformation Guide is designed to help you lay the groundwork for a smooth and effective transition.

This guide outlines essential steps to help you:

  • Analyze your project process challenges and how to prioritize their impact on the business
  • Form a team of stakeholders that will drive your transformation
  • Establish a realistic budget that aligns with your strategic goals
  • Develop a clear roadmap of your transformation and how to get there
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Real stories in ETO manufacturing

ICM Powers Project-Driven Production with PlanAutomate

ICM engineers, builds, and supports the biofuels industry’s most efficient and innovative ethanol plants. Success depends on precise project-driven production and procurement—ensuring the right materials are available at the right time.

With thousands of tasks and components in each project, aligning live project schedules with ongoing production is a complex challenge. Traditional tools fall short in managing this scale while integrating with MRP. PlanAutomate solves this problem by seamlessly synchronizing projects, procurement, and production in a single system, keeping ICM’s entire operation aligned and running efficiently.

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