Material Requirements Planning & Master Production Scheduling (MPS/MRP)

The MPS/MRP module gives production control, purchasing, and management the information needed to plan and control business operations. It identifies detail production and purchasing actions, which need to be taken in response to day-to-day events. It ties overall business planning to detail operations through the master scheduling function.

• Limitless, net change MPS/MRP (with optional regeneration)
• Automatic first cut Master Production Schedule
• Variable planning horizon
• Flexible time bucket summarization of MRP data
• Firm planned orders supported
• Pegged requirements on-line and in reports
• Suggested rescheduling of shop orders and purchase orders
• English language action messages with dates
• Available-to-promise inquiry
• Flexible lot sizing and order policies
• Summary revenue and expense projections
• Summary production plans
• Real time planning and pegging inquiry
• Forecasts and consumption of forecasts by customer orders
• Master Production Schedule simulation
• Rough cut capacity simulation
• MRP simulation
• Multiple warehouse MPS/MRP
• Item planning data by warehouse and lot
• Mass release of shop orders from planned orders
• Multiple level master scheduling
• Final assembly orders and scheduling
• Finite forward scheduling

Manufacturing Data Management

The Manufacturing Data Management module allows production control, engineering, and cost accounting to retrieve and use product structure, routing and work center information for a wide variety of planning and costing needs. It features immediate on-line posting and access to all basic manufacturing data.

• On-line posting of additions, deletions, and changes to product structures
• On-line copying and modification of bills and routings
• Effective and discontinue dates
• User-defined decimal precision in the quantity required
• Automatic update of low level codes
• Multiple level where-used and end item where-used inquiry
• Mass replace for components
• Complete planning bill of material functions
• Departments and work centers supported
• Tooling and efficiency information
• Alternate operations

Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning allows production control to identify capacity bottlenecks and backlog problems before they occur. It pinpoints loading problems at critical work centers and allows for better scheduling, work center utilization, and manpower planning.

• Rough cut planning from the Master Production Schedule
• Variable planning horizon
• Flexible time bucket summarization of work center loads
• Detail capacity requirements on-line or in report form
• All requirements pegged to orders (actual or planned)
• Loading of each work center by setup, run, machine, setup and run, or setup and machine hours
• Backward scheduling of planned operations
• Bills of resources
• Detail Shop Calendar by work center

Shop Floor Control

The Shop Floor Control module provides production management with accurate, timely, and concise information on production activity and status. Use this product for detailed planning and scheduling and for highlighting shop floor problems as they occur. The Shop Floor Control program provides management with logistical control over material, scheduling, capacity, and efficiency functions.

• Detail open shop order inquiry by item number, order number, or transaction detail
• On-line modification of components or operations required for an order during order release ability to copy bill of material from another item ability to copy routing from another item
• Picking lists and shop packets printed
• Backward scheduling of operations from shop order due date or,
• Forward scheduling from release date
• Schedule dates for material issues from stock
• Shortage list by component or by order
• Releasable orders inquiry for material and capacity
• On-line labour posting and shop order release
• Multiple print of labour tickets depending on the length of order (optional)