Micro enterprise is one of the drivers of the nation's economic growth. There are many micro enterprises that have to provide many various products because of public demand and also industrial competition. Many of the micro enterprise owners run their business ignoring production planning that contributes mostly to the company's profit. We have to improve the micro enterprises production planning methods to get more profit. This paper examines production planning methods in a micro enterprise at Surakarta, Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to compare the use of planning and scheduling strategy. We explore challenges associated with planning strategies, and lastly, we consider a functional model of developing a planning system.