Materials Planning
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| Master Production Scheduling (MPS) is a form of production scheduling that focuses on planning on parts or the complete product of the whole production process. Whereas, MRP is a set of techniques that uses and processes data from BOM, Inventory and MPS to calculate the future requirements for materials. The MPS takes into account the forecast, the production plan, and other significant considerations such as backlog, availability of material, availability of capacity, and management policies and goals. |
- Provide more accurate capacity planning or time
required as the production of a higher level item
is adjusted
- Use generic products and planning models to forecast
and plan capacity at either product family or product
level
- User-defined planning buckets allow you to establish
up to short, medium and long range planning horizons
in days, weeks, months, years or any combination
- Packaging requirements and production job outputs
are pegged to each order promise to allow instant
visibility of customer specific requirements
- Determine "what-if" scenarios to compare actual
demand to existing plans and make adjustments
- Evaluate and compare an unlimited number of alternative
schedule versions and identify shortfalls
- Assess the impact of producing products using different
specifications, plants or even process lines
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