Dynamic Reallocation in StartProto: Prioritizing What Matters Most

As a job shop owner, you know that priorities can change in an instant. A big customer might suddenly need their order expedited, or a machine breakdown could force you to reshuffle your entire schedule. Dynamic Reallocation in StartProto is designed to handle exactly these kinds of situations by automatically adjusting inventory and work-in-progress (WIP) to meet your most urgent demands.

What Does This Mean for You?

With Dynamic Reallocation, you have full control over which jobs take priority, and StartProto will intelligently shift materials, subassemblies, and work resources to make sure the highest-priority work gets completed first.

Let’s look at a few real-world examples:

Example 1: Rush Order from a Key Customer

Imagine you’re machining parts for multiple customers, and a major client suddenly calls in with an urgent request—they need their parts shipped tomorrow.

• Normally, those parts might have been scheduled after other jobs.
• With Dynamic Reallocation, you can bump the priority up in StartProto, and the system will immediately look at what materials, WIP, and workstations can be reallocated to get that order done first.
• If a needed component is in progress for a lower-priority job, it will automatically be redirected to the urgent order.

Result? Your best customer gets their parts on time without you having to manually reshuffle everything.

Example 2: Limited Material, Multiple Jobs

Let’s say you have one batch of a critical alloy, and it's currently assigned to three different jobs. But now, you receive a high-value order that absolutely must be completed ASAP.

• Instead of manually tracking down where the material is being used and shifting it yourself, Dynamic Reallocation steps in.
• StartProto will check your priorities and reroute the material to the highest-priority job.
• Any other job that was using that material will get rescheduled, but you stay in control of what matters most.

Example 3: Workstation Bottlenecks

You have multiple jobs running, and your CNC mill is at full capacity. You’ve just learned that a high-margin job needs to be delivered sooner than expected.

• Dynamic Reallocation will look at the queue and shift work to other available machines or adjust schedules so that the high-priority job gets through first.
• It will even optimize WIP—if another part in the high-priority assembly is waiting, it will move it ahead in the queue automatically.