Production Planning

The Production Planning Module includes both Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Forecasting. Production planning looks at actual demand, forecasted demand, and inventory requirements to generate manufacturing orders, suggested work orders and suggested purchase orders. After approving the suggested orders, actual works order and/or purchase orders are generated.

Production Planning Major Functions

Generate Production Planning

This is the process that explodes all demand to determine the material requirements for purchased items, subassembly items and adjusts for inventory on hand or on order. During this process, the program balances each inventory requirement in multiples of its order quantity, and offsets the net requirements by the appropriate lead times. Suggested work orders for subassemblies and suggested purchase orders for the components are generated.

Approve/Combine Manufacturing Orders

This process enables the user to approve or combine MORs for subassembly items by simply “tagging“ them. The system then changes the status of these Manufacturing Orders to firm work orders.

Approve/Combine Suggested Work Orders

This process enables the user to approve or combine SWOs for subassembly items by simply ”tagging“ them. The system then changes the status of these SWOs to firm work orders.

Approve/Combine Suggested Purchase Orders (SPO)

This process enables the user to approve or combine SPOs for purchased items by simply ”tagging“ them. Multiple items may be tagged for a single vendor or multiple vendors at one time. The system then places the user into a clone of ACCOUNTMATE's purchase order process to allow editing the purchase order created.

Planning/Pegging Inquiry

This provides an inquiry screen to show the detail requirements for an inventory item generated by sales orders, purchase orders and firm work orders. The user can also select whether to include requirements generated by manufacturing orders (MOR), suggested work orders (SWO), suggested purchase orders (SPO), or forecasted demand.