A batch planner for coffee roasters: plan each roast once, repeat it every production day.

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A batch planner for coffee roasters is where the roastery decides, before roast day, what each batch should be: which coffee, how much green, what weight loss to expect, which machine, and which roast to follow. A good one keeps that plan connected to the batches it produces, so the team can see whether production matched the plan.

In Rostoc that object is the Plan. You set it up once and roast against it as many times as you need. Every roast started from it is recorded as a Batch linked back to the Plan, and the Plan collects the production history, the statistics, and the Reference Curve that the next roast follows.

• Define the coffee or blend, charge weight, and target weight loss once.
• Assign the machine, so the right roaster connects when you start.
• Set a Reference Curve to follow live in Roast Studio.
• Roast against the Plan on every production day and review the batches it produced.

What A Rostoc Plan Holds

A Plan is a roast recipe with production targets attached. The Plans guide covers each field; this is what each one does on roast day.

Planning A Roast Day

Rostoc opens on Home, which puts what needs attention on the left and the Plans you can start on the right. Coffee Lines close to running out and green orders still on the way sit next to the Plans you roasted most recently, so the roast-day list and the stock it depends on are on the same screen.

Open a Plan and choose Open in Roast Studio. Between batches, the Between Batch Protocol shows the gap between the machine's current temperatures and the next roast's target temperatures, so each batch charges from the right thermal state. Roasts can be started without a Plan too, from Home or Batches, when a run is a one-off.

• Start recurring production from the same Plan instead of copying last week's numbers.
• Use Save as new plan to branch a variation without overwriting the original.
• Change a Plan's targets once; the change applies to future batches and leaves completed records alone.

From Plan To Batch

Every roast started from a Plan becomes a Batch with its own permanent code, RB-0001, RB-0002 and onwards, shared across the roastery so a second roaster on another machine continues the same sequence. The batch keeps its curve, events, weights, and notes, and can print a label carrying the coffee, the Plan, the roast date, and the weight out.

The Plan detail page adds up its batches under Production: how many roasts, the roasted weight, the average weight loss, and the green coffee charged per week over the last 28 days. That weekly figure is the number to plan the next green purchase against. Once a Plan has four or more batches, Home shows how tightly its last five roasts agree, so you can tell whether the Plan is genuinely repeatable.

Planning Green Coffee Around Production

A batch plan is only as good as the green coffee behind it. With green inventory, each roast deducts from the lots that fed it, and Rostoc estimates when each Coffee Line runs out from your actual roasting usage. Home lists the lines closest to running out, soonest first.

Green orders move from Draft to On order to Received, with an expected arrival date. A confirmed order whose date has passed is marked overdue, so a late delivery shows up before it stops a roast day. Green inventory, run-out estimates, and orders are part of the Growth plan; Plans and batch history are on every plan.

Is Rostoc Coffee Production Scheduling Software?

Partly, and it is worth being exact. Rostoc plans what to roast and how to roast it, keeps the result connected to the green lots and the batch record, and warns you before stock runs out. That covers roast-day planning for most small and mid-sized roasteries.

It does not build a dated production queue from wholesale or e-commerce orders, sequence batches on a calendar, or track roasted and packaged stock. If sales orders drive your day-by-day schedule, an order-driven production or ERP tool will serve you better, and Rostoc can still sit alongside it as the roast record. The comparison page sets out where Rostoc fits against other roasting software.

When A Spreadsheet Roast Plan Stops Working

Most roasteries start planning in a spreadsheet, and that is a sensible start. It breaks when several people need to trust the same plan: the targets live in one tab, the batch log in another, and green stock in a third that someone reconciles by hand.

The warning signs are usually the same, and each one is a link a batch planner keeps for you.

• Nobody can say which version of a plan produced a given batch.
• Roast-day targets are copied from the last batch rather than from a plan.
• Green stock is updated after roasting, if at all, so the next plan starts from a wrong number.
• The reference roast the team follows lives in one roaster's head or on one laptop.

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