Materials Management
MATERIALS MANAGEMENT is the first step in the execution of your plan. It defines the actions to be taken, and when to take them for buyers, planners, expediters and production schedulers.
The action messages of Expandable’s “bucketless” Material Requirements Planning (MRP) reporting are your company’s time-phased call to action.
Material requirements are generated based on a production schedule from the Master Production Schedule (MPS) or may be manually created.
MODULE FEATURES
Production Plan Maintenance
- Part demand by required dates
- Customer and user reference information
- Optionally created by Master
- Schedule Utility
- Load Sales Order demand directly into MRP Part Plan
Material Requirements Generation
- Include and exclude options:
- Select on release date
- Collect stock, open order status
- Analysis of safety stock
- Explode assemblies only
- Calculate component requirements
- Negative inventory
- Safety stock
- Expense items
- Shortages from closed jobs
- Purchase order requisitions, quotation, blankets
- On-hold purchase orders and jobs
- Lead time for phantoms
- Use part lot size or exact quantity
- Update part forecast in the Part Master File
- Select on part plan source
Planning Workbench
- Place jobs and purchase orders directly from MRP run
Material Requirements Reporting
- Top level pegging
- Bucketless calculation with summarized or detailed reports
- Selection by:
- Buyer
- Vendor
- Part
- Planner
- Date range
- Action message(s)
- Detail shows:
- Gross requirements
- Open orders
- Projected availability
- Planned orders
- Recommended release date
- Pegging data
- Parts user fields
- Action analysis:
- Recommended orders
- Recommended order re-scheduling
- Order past due
- No requirements
- Optional vendor info
Inquiries
- Material Requirements
- Option to create PO line or job from inquiry
- Pegging
- Part plan
Manufacturing Calendar Maintenance
- Generation by year
- Work days vs. non-work days
- Plant shut-down date range
The Planning Workbench simplifies the materials planning process
Multi-run Planning
- By plant
- Compare MRP runs
- Centralize purchasing
Real-time Integration
- Inventory Control
- Lot Tracking
- Purchasing
- Product Data Control
- Job Scheduling/Costing
- Master Scheduling