Frepple aims at building a lightweight open source framework that easily and quickly delivers a solution for production planning problems. The initial focus is on small to medium sized planning problems for the discrete manufacturing industry.

Production planning software traditionally has been an area with plenty of home-grown, extremely specialised and/or very primitive solutions.
Strangely enough, while creative and innovative open source solutions pop up in all computing areas, production planning software still tends to be a very closed world full of academic, proprietary and expensive solutions. Till now...
Frepple is the first open source production planning toolkit for your day-to-day planning problems.