Master Production Scheduling

The master production scheduling process translates a business plan into a dynamic and comprehensive product manufacturing schedule. glovia.com - Master Production Scheduling (MPS) helps your management team balance and integrate the needs of marketing, manufacturing, finance and–most importantly–your customers.

Master Production Scheduling At-A-Glance

Master Scheduling

• Planning workbench
• Multiple scheduling cycles
• Concurrent MPS planning views
• Cycle options and policies consistent with Material Requirements Planning controls
• Choice of current or simulated data for what-if analysis
• Multi-level pegging
• Master schedule items at multiple levels
• Independent and dependent demand items
• Spares item scheduling
• Time fence control at item level
• Computer planned orders
• Selectable CPO conversions
• Generation of purchase requisitions and contract releases
• Creation of manufacturing orders

Rough-Cut Capacity Planning

• Current or simulated analysis of critical resources and capacities
• Based on representative routings

On-Screen Exception Planning

• Paperless analyst review of suggested actions by item
• Reschedule open commitments by system-suggested due date
• Highlights items with inadequate lead time
• Overstock analysis
• Cancellations suggested
• Sensitivity filters allow planners to control volume and types of exceptions

Planning Bill of Materials

• Parent item may be a model, product or family group
• Support of revision control
• Current or simulated versions
• Component mix percentages

Forecast Demand

• Automatic generation of repeating forecast based on quantities, intervals and dates
• By location within operating unit
• Item forecasts generated from planning bills
• Pegging to demand source
• Forecasts optionally consumed by bookings
• Demand stream references
• Forecast maintenance

Firm Planned Orders

• By location within operating unit
• For multiple products with scheduled deliveries
• Option to convert to manufacturing orders
• Support for full attributes of manufacturing work orders

Sample Inquiries and Reports

• MPS Planning by Item
• MPS Exceptions by Item
• Available-To-Promise
• Critical Path Lead Time
• MPS Detail
• MPS Summary
• MPS Exceptions
• Sales and Operations Planning