What each screen shows
One line per screen and panel, in the order they appear in the menu.
Build planEnter finished-unit quantities and the dates they're due. Coverage and status update live from your BOM and inventory.
Readiness GanttEach milestone compares cumulative demand with material-supported output and identifies the constraint controlling that date.
Products & BOMConnect every item to its parent assembly, then identify whether it is made here, purchased, or consumed in bulk.
InventoryBOM unit is pulled in automatically. Unit cost is optional - fill it in to see the dollar value of a shortage.
Incoming supplyExpected receipts are converted into each material's BOM unit automatically. PO number and lead time are both optional.
ShortagesRanked by how many finished units each shortage blocks. Click a row to inspect it.
Work cellsProgress, staffing and open work by cell.
Production roadblocksMaterial, manpower, process-time and rework issues ranked together.
Work cells & process standardsCreate work cells, assign owners and define standard work.
Documents & SOPsCurrent instructions, lift plans, safety files, drawings and quality documents by work cell.
Shift controlBalance people and record dated actuals for the selected shift.
Team & accessInvite people, assign Runway access, control editing permissions and manage production-product scope.
My accountManage your personal details and see the Runway workspace and access attached to this account.
Personal detailsThese details belong to your KUSTOM KO account.
Runway accessWorkspace and access are controlled independently from your personal profile.
Password & securityKeep your account secure without leaving Runway.
Plan & billingManage the Runway plan, paid-seat capacity and billing for this workspace.
CompanyCurrent plan
Contact supportSend a Runway-specific request without leaving your workspace.
Team action registerRaised issues, ownership and resolution history.
System-detected constraintsLive signals calculated from materials and recorded production data.
Shared flagsIssues raised by any team member and visible to the entire workspace.
Calculated roadblocksGenerated from material, staffing, time and rework data.
Recommended operator balanceStarts from the Process Owner's planned operators for a new shift, then recalculates from People today when supervision changes actual staffing. Runway allocates the available crew across eligible standard work while respecting operation sequence and each step's crew limits.
Plan detailsEditable operating assumptions used for capacity and staffing calculations.
Plan detailsRecorded shift-end progress by date
Current cell healthLatest staffing, completion and open work.
Weekly output and WIPCompleted quantity and in-process completion shown separately.
All-cell progressShift-end work-in-process progress by day for the selected week.
All-cell progressControlled process definition
The five steps to material readiness
1. Products & BOM - connect each item to the product or assembly that directly uses it.
2. Build plan - enter how many finished units you need, and by when.
3. Inventory - enter what's on hand, already reserved, and your safety stock buffer for every part.
4. Incoming supply - enter what's on order and when it lands.
5. Shortages - the app does the math and ranks what's actually going to stop your build, and when.
Building and changing the BOM tree
Structure role describes what the item is: product, assembly, individual part, or bulk material. Supply method separately describes how it arrives: purchased or made in-house.
Parent assembly answers only one question: which product or assembly directly uses this item? Change it at any time to move the item-including back to another finished product. Use the + button on a part to add a child and turn it into an assembly.
Work cells, shift control and OEE
Planned operators is the normal staffing level defined by the Process Owner in Work cells & process standards. It is the default crew used when a new shift has no saved staffing record yet.
People today is the crew actually available for the selected date and shift. It starts from Planned operators by default. A supervisor can raise or lower it for that shift without changing the Process Owner's process standard.
Operator balance is recalculated from People today. Runway lays out who does what and in what order, respects operation precedence, allows steps with the same Operation number to run in parallel, and uses available people across eligible work up to each step's useful crew limit. Higher Operation numbers wait for lower Operation numbers to finish.
Crew and forecast time use operator-minutes for divisible work: standard time × standard crew gives the work content, and forecast duration changes with the crew assigned. A step of 30 minutes at a standard crew of 2 is 60 operator-minutes: two people take 30 minutes; one person takes 60 only when Min crew allows one; three people take 20 when Max crew allows three. Staffing below Min crew blocks the step rather than stretching it.
Operation number is editable in the process-step table. Give steps the same number when they are part of the same operation and may run in parallel (for example 1, 1, 1). Use increasing numbers for precedence (for example 1, 2, 3, 4). Runway schedules a higher-numbered operation only after the lower-numbered operation is complete.
Where the crew limits are set - Work cells & process standards, in the process-step table. Each step carries Standard crew, Min crew and Max crew. Changing one keeps the other two in order (minimum ≤ standard ≤ maximum) instead of resetting them. Both columns are included in the Excel download and read back on upload, under the headings Min Crew and Max Crew; a sheet without them imports as minimum 1 and maximum the standard crew.
When a shift cannot run a step - if People today is below a step's Min crew, that step cannot run at all and Runway says so above the timeline, naming the step and the number of people it needs. Every operation after it in the routing is blocked with it, because it cannot start until that work is done, and no bars are drawn for work nobody can be doing. Raise People today, or lower the step's Min crew if the real minimum is lower than the standard says.
Spare operators - once every step in an operation has the crew its routing asks for, anyone left over is put on whichever step is currently finishing last and can still take another person, up to that step's Max crew. Nobody is left idle beside work that could be shared out, and nobody is put on a step where an extra person changes nothing.
Minimum / standard / maximum crew have different meanings: minimum is the fewest people the step can safely or practically run with; standard is the normal planned crew; maximum is the point beyond which another person does not help. These limits are defined by the Process Owner.
Balance efficiency shows how effectively the available shift crew is applied against the work and pace required. The timeline is a recommended deployment plan; supervision can still use operating judgment before committing the shift.
OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is calculated from three factors you record, not from machine sensors: Availability (planned shift time minus logged downtime), Performance (units built vs. target), and Quality (good units vs. scrapped). OEE = Availability × Performance × Quality.
Downtime log - record what stopped a cell and for how long (changeover, material shortage, quality hold, no operator, maintenance). This is what drives the Availability half of OEE.
Roadblocks & the action register
System-detected constraints are calculated automatically from your materials and shift data - no one has to notice or type them in. Team-raised flags are anything a person adds by hand, with full history of who raised it, when, who resolved it, and why.
Documents, team & billing
Each work cell can carry its own safety, quality, process and drawing documents. Team & access controls who can edit which area - Planning, Process Owner and Supervision roles edit their respective areas, while an Administrator can manage workspace access, billing and product assignments.
Terms used in this tool
- Safety stock
- The buffer you never want to dip below. Turn off "Protect safety stock" to see if you could still build by dipping into it.
- Reserved
- Stock already committed to another order - not available for this build plan.
- Scrap %
- Extra material consumed per unit due to normal waste - added on top of the BOM quantity.
- Conversion
- How many BOM units are in one stock unit, e.g. a 50 m roll of wire has conversion 50 if the BOM unit is meters.
- Units blocked
- How many finished products a shortage prevents you from completing, given everything else is available.
- Takt time
- The pace you need to finish one unit at to hit your build plan - demand time divided by available time.
- Planned operators
- The Process Owner's normal staffing level for the work cell. It becomes the default People today value for a new shift.
- People today
- The actual operators available for the selected date and shift. Changing it affects that shift's balance and does not overwrite Planned operators.
- Minimum / standard / maximum crew
- Minimum is the fewest people a step can safely or practically run with; standard is the normal crew used to define its work content; maximum is the point beyond which extra people stop helping.