For many manufacturing companies, SAP CM25 has been a trusted tool for daily production capacity planning and leveling for many years. Using the graphical planning board, planners could distribute production orders across workstations, reschedule orders, and monitor available capacity.

But CM25 has had its day and is heading toward “end of life.”

SAP is gradually phasing out the classic graphical planning transactions. CM25 is no longer available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. For companies transitioning to S/4HANA, this means they must find a new solution for day-to-day production planning.

However, this doesn’t have to be a complicated migration.

Planwisely Core: The Modern Alternative to CM25

Planwisely Core offers a user-friendly graphical planning board for daily production planning. It aligns with the way planners are accustomed to working, but brings that workflow into a modern planning environment.

The planner remains in control and can easily schedule, reschedule, and adjust production orders. At the same time, Planwisely takes the actual production environment into account, including available capacity, production routes, product characteristics, and constraints.

This makes Planwisely Core an accessible way to transition from CM25 to modern production planning.

So you don’t have to completely overhaul your entire planning process right away. You can start with what you’re familiar with: a clear, visual planning board for daily planning.

From CM25 to Planwisely: A Major Modernization

Although the workflow remains familiar, the transition from CM25 to Planwisely is more than just a technical replacement.

Planwisely is built for modern production planning and uses a Digital Twin of the factory. This allows you to consider not only orders and available capacity, but also the actual characteristics and limitations of the production environment.

That makes it easier to create a plan that not only looks good on paper but is also feasible in practice.

The key question becomes:

Given the current circumstances, how can we easily create a good, robust, and adaptable production plan?

When circumstances change—for example, due to a machine breakdown, a delayed raw material delivery, or a rush order—the planner can easily adjust the plan.

Easy integration with SAP

Planwisely does not replace SAP.

SAP remains the ERP system for orders, master data, and business processes, among other things. Planwisely adds a specialized environment for production planning to that.

Thanks to the integration with SAP, relevant data from SAP can be used in Planwisely, and the planning process can align with the existing SAP environment.

This makes Planwisely an attractive option for companies migrating to S/4HANA that don’t want to unnecessarily complicate their day-to-day production planning.

Start with Core, scale up to AI

A key advantage of the Planwisely approach is that you can get started with minimal effort.

With Planwisely Core, you get a modern, user-friendly planning environment that combines the familiar functionality of a graphical planning board with the capabilities of a modern APS solution.

But it doesn’t have to stop there.

The same Digital Twin forms the basis for Planwisely AI. When the organization is ready, it can easily move on to the next phase: not only creating the production plan, but also having it automatically optimized.

Planwisely AI can simulate various planning scenarios and evaluate them based on the KPIs that are important to the organization. Examples include capacity, changeovers, lead times, and efficiency.

This creates a logical growth path:

CM25 → Planwisely Core → Planwisely AI

From a familiar graphical planning board to modern production planning and ultimately to AI-driven optimization.