Master Scheduling
MASTER SCHEDULING is key to effectively planning the manufacturing activities of your business. It provides versatile functions to help you create and maintain the company’s Master Production Schedule (MPS) for finished products and service parts.
Planning bills are supported to streamline and simplify your forecasting operations. The Master Schedule forecast can be automatically created from forecasted sales, quotations and actual demand (see Sales Order Management).
Forecasts can also be manually entered, uploaded from your favorite forecasting/modeling software or from a simple spreadsheet. Multiple versions of the forecast can be maintained for “what-if” simulation.
Available to promise, projected on hand and planned order releases for MPS parts is available during sales order entry as well as system-wide. Master Schedules may be automatically passed to the Materials Management function for use in Material Requirements Planning (MRP).
MODULE FEATURES
Sales Forecast Maintenance
- Create manually or automatically post from forecast status sales orders
- Planning bill
- Multiple versions
- Copy
- Spreadsheet upload
Demand Generation
- Automatically posted from sales orders
- Imploded to planning bill
Supply Generation
- Automatically posted from
- Inventory, Purchasing and Jobs
- Option to include RMAs as supply
Master Schedule Creation
- One or two level master schedule
- Options and models based on percentage of planning bill
- Utilizes demand and planning time fences
- Option to explode planning bills using planned percentages or actual demand
- Option to create available to promise file
- Calculates:
- Available to promise
- Projected availability
- Suggested MPS orders
Automatic MRP Plan Creation
- Moves the Master Production Schedule to production
One-step MPS-MRP
- Workflow to execute multiple MPS and MRP functions
Comprehensive Bucketless MPS Reporting
- By part
- By planner
- Includes:
- Forecast
- Production forecast
- Demand
- MPS orders
- Projected on hand
- Available to promise
- Exception messages
Expandable’s One-step MPS-MRP feature simplifies production planning
Real-time Integration
- Sales Orders
- Inventory Control
- Lot Tracking
- Product Data Control
- Job Scheduling/Costing
- Purchasing
- Materials Management (MRP)