Features/Function Highlights

Planning Parameters

• Sets defaults for MPS generation runs

Period Intervals

• Define how the future is to be divided into time periods
• Multiple period intervals may be defined
• Used to display time-phased materials activity

Resource Master

• Defines critical resources used in production
• Identifies bottleneck areas which should be controlled

Bill of Resources

• List of resources and units needed for master-scheduled items
• May be manually entered
• May be automatically generated by analyzing Indented bill of material, Indented routing

Maintain Master Schedule

• Supports manual entry of firm planned orders
• Generated planned orders can be firmed or confirmed
• Allows changes in dates and/or quantities for generated planned orders

Master Schedule Generation

• Nets forecast and sales orders to on-hand and on-order
• Generates planned orders via order policy codes

Forecast Maintenance

• Allows entry of item forecasts by warehouse
• Items can be assigned to groups to inherit forecast characteristics
• Forecasts entered by quantity or amount
• Forecast by week, bi-week, month, quarter, year
• Forecast may be propagated over a given time frame
• Allows forecasts to be ‘layered’ for multiple forecasts in the same period

Available-To-Promise

• Displays time phased availability
• Indicates first period in which a required quantity is available
• Supports Zoom to display details of periodic requirements

Rough-Cut Capacity Inquiry

• Compares capacity and load in user-defined period intervals
• Over or under-load displayed graphically for easy exception analysis
• Details of load displayed with Zoom option

Reports

• Master schedule
• Rough-cut capacity
• Bill of resource
• Resource where-used

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