"It’s more important to know where you go, than to get there somewhat quicker ", - it seems that the Russian manufacturers of plastic products and packaging start to put this aphorism into practice. Working on promptly growing (up to 30 % a year) and extremely competitive market, they start asking themselves: how to raise speed of reaction? What will help to synchronize complex technological process? What can help to reduce the manufacture expenses and how to achieve improvement of service quality? Answers to these questions can be received by drawing up detailed industrial schedules by means of systems of the optimized industrial planning (APS). Actively used in many countries of the Western Europe and the USA, today APS-systems come to Russia