Modern UK manufacturing demands more than spreadsheets and legacy ERPs. Keel's production planning and scheduling software is built around your exact process — your stages, your batches, your work orders — by a UK-registered company (Planko Ltd, Altrincham, Cheshire) that bills in GBP and lets you choose where your data is hosted, including in the UK. From raw materials to finished goods, gain complete visibility, reduce bottlenecks, and keep every production run aligned with orders and delivery commitments.
End-to-end tools for managing production batches, schedules, shop floor work orders, inventory, orders, and quality — built around how UK manufacturers actually operate.
Manage daily shop floor workloads, work orders, and production batches aligned with your orders and delivery schedule — including your master production schedule. Model your exact stages, checkpoints, and terminology — from raw materials through to finished goods, fully traced.
Real-time inventory tracking across every location, with lot and batch control, automated reorders, and full traceability — built to handle the complexity off-the-shelf tools simply cannot manage.
Track every order from entry to delivery, with smart inventory allocation, automated warehouse rules, and synced fulfilment workflows — all managed from a single, unified operations hub.
Manage suppliers, automate purchase order approvals, and streamline replenishment — with three-way matching, budget tracking, and a complete audit trail from requisition to receipt.
Build warehouse workflows that match exactly how your business operates — configured to your layout, your receiving and picking processes, and even your unique exception-handling rules.
Pick, pack, and ship with optimised wave and batch picking, barcode verification, automated carrier selection, and end-to-end SLA tracking — with complete visibility at every stage.
We start by understanding exactly how you make things — your stages, materials, checkpoints, and terminology. No generic manufacturing assumptions. This ensures the system reflects your real-world operations from day one.
See how fast-moving operations teams have transformed production planning with Keel.
Keel is built by operators, for operators — giving UK manufacturers a production planning platform you truly own and can evolve at speed.
Every workflow, stage, and checkpoint is modelled around how you actually operate — not forced into a rigid template.
Launch tailored production planning systems in weeks, not months, with a managed build process and full team handover.
Full data ownership, version-controlled infrastructure, and the ability to iterate freely — no vendor lock-in, ever.
Planko Ltd is a UK-registered company (Altrincham, Cheshire) and ICO registered under reference ZB524558. Billing is in GBP with VAT added, and multi-region hosting lets you choose where your data lives, including in the UK.
Built by operators who have solved these exact challenges at scale.
Keel was founded in 2021 by three former executives from Echo — Europe's fastest-growing online pharmacy, later acquired by Pharmacy2U. As CEO, CTO, and CPO, the founders built custom production and operations software to ship 50,000 medicines to 600,000 customers daily, growing the business to $130 million in annual revenue. They experienced first-hand how legacy ERP systems couldn't scale at the speed modern operations demand, so they built the solution they wished existed. Since then, Keel has raised $6 million in seed funding from leading European investors Earlybird and LocalGlobe, and is on a mission to empower operators everywhere with flexible, powerful tools they truly own — replacing spreadsheets and archaic ERPs with software built around each business's unique process.
Production scheduling software helps manufacturers plan, sequence, and manage the timing of production activities to meet order deadlines efficiently. It provides tools for batch management, workload allocation, capacity planning, and real-time visibility into production progress — replacing manual spreadsheets with automated, connected workflows that reduce bottlenecks and improve delivery performance.
Talk to our team to book a personalised demo tailored to your UK operations.
UK data protection authority registered, reference ZB524558.
Seed funded by Earlybird and LocalGlobe, top European investors.
Transparent, community-trusted, open-source infrastructure on GitHub.
Tell us about your UK production operations and we'll show you how Keel can build a planning and scheduling system around your exact process — get in touch to book a personalised demo.
You can also send us a quick email at hello@keel.so.
You can also send us a quick email at hello@keel.so.