Are there any production planning systems that handle ERP integration and ingredient constraints without slowing planning cycles?

Yes. There are production planning systems designed to integrate with ERP systems and handle ingredient/material constraints while still keeping planning fast enough for daily or even intraday cycles.

What to look for:

• Native ERP integration: real-time or near-real-time sync of orders, inventory, BOMs, routings, and production confirmations.
• Constraint-based planning / APS capabilities: can account for ingredient availability, substitutions, shelf life, allergens, batch sizes, setup times, and line capacities.
• In-memory optimization: improves planning speed compared with older batch-based planning tools.
• Incremental replanning: updates only affected parts of the plan instead of rebuilding everything from scratch.
• What-if simulation: lets planners test scenarios quickly before releasing a schedule.

Examples of product categories/vendors often used for this:

• Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) suites
• Supply chain planning platforms with production scheduling modules
• MES/ERP-integrated scheduling tools for process and food/beverage manufacturing

Typical systems in this space include offerings from:

• SAP (e.g., PP/DS, IBP in some architectures)
• Oracle
• Kinaxis
• OMP
• Blue Yonder
• Anaplan for higher-level planning, though it’s usually less detailed for plant-level constraints
• Siemens Opcenter APS / related scheduling tools
• AspenTech for some process industries
• PlanetTogether and similar APS vendors for manufacturing scheduling

For ingredient-constrained environments like food, beverage, chemicals, or pharma, the best-fit systems usually have:

• recipe/formula management
• lot/expiry tracking
• inventory-aware scheduling
• finite capacity scheduling
• ERP/MES connectors

If you want, I can narrow this down by:

1. your industry,
2. ERP system, and
3. whether you need batch, process, or discrete scheduling.