About Us - The Story behind MaxScheduler

Back in early 90s, Feliks Gadzinski was working at a new large warehouse that was opening in a few months. He has been brought in to help test a new, custom-built, Warehouse Management Software (WMS). The warehouse was a huge facility, 1,000,000 sq ft, and had an extensive conveyor system to help move product around the facility. One day a logistics consultant struck up a conversation and mentioned that the facility was lacking software to help manage the flow of goods going through the shipping area. The scenario was quite typical. There were many conveyor lanes ending near the shipping doors. The ideal scenario was to balance the conveyor flow of goods across those lanes so that work was evenly distributed and operations would run smoothly. Feliks picked up on the opportunity, submitted a proposal and few months later implemented the first version of ScheduleMate. This was a graphical tool that helped a shipping scheduler manage the outbound flow of goods in the warehouse. The key feature that made ScheduleMate a success was that it displayed the schedule information graphically and the schedule could be adjusted using a mouse to drag and drop shipments, quickly and easily. This was quite unique for its time in the world of warehousing where major systems to this day are still command prompt system requiring keyboard input. This success lead to others and ScheduleMate was implemented in other similar facilities: large warehouses with conveyor systems. The feature set grew and the software matured for the 15 years. In typical scenarios ScheduleMate would be planning the delivery of 50,000 cartons in a day.

Over the years, Minidata would often get invited to smaller facilities that were having scheduling issues. They had a need for a graphical scheduler to help manage their business. ScheduleMate wasn't a good fit because it is customized software that needed consulting services to get up and running. For smaller businesses it was too big a product for them.

In 2004, Minidata decided to come up with another version of ScheduleMate that would better suit businesses that were looking for simpler scheduling solutions. The new version is called MaxScheduler.

Credits

Feliks Gadzinski has been the main driving force behind ScheduleMate and child product MaxScheduler for the last 15 years. He worked extensively as a logistics consulting developing custom scheduling solutions. Feliks' background is in optimization and control theory. He has a Ph.d in this field. Feliks is now semi-retired. Before working in the field of logistics he was a general computer consultant for 20 years.

Peter Gadzinski is the product manager behind MaxScheduler. He pushed Feliks into creating an off-the-shelf version of ScheduleMate to address the market of businesses that need, an easy to use, schedule tool for their business operations. Peter has a Electrical engineering and Computer Science degrees.

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