Master Production Scheduling (MPS) Features and Functions

• Unlimited quantity of production schedules may be generated, including simulations


• Inventory demand is recorded by class including target inventory level, and transfer, forecast, or target demand


• Classifies supply into types such as materials, purchased, flow, work order, and transfer


• Data can be compiled based on specified criteria or variables, net change, simulations, in real time, etc.


• Planning periods can be defined in standard intervals (monthly, weekly, daily, by shift, etc.), or as specified by the user


• Customizable planning periods and horizons


• Planning can be based on different variables such as required by lot; fixed quantity, increment, and income; or order point


• Implements calendars by work center, line, warehouse, or entity


• Different teams can execute and release planning methods manually or automatically


• Lists the different items and products used at different sites


• Production schedules incorporate demand, product family, and other production schedules


• Critical resource capacities flagged by item


• Specifies planning periods as daily, weekly, or monthly


• Generates reports using time-phased buckets


• Institutes multiple planning time fences


• Master schedule can be created at all product levels


• FPO and allocated orders


• Internal system integrates with external operations


• Links multiple work and purchase orders together for job control


• Group work order processing


• Schedule can be edited, changed, or consolidated


• Tracks accuracy of order forecasting as percentage


• Transmits master schedule requirements (gross or net) to MRP


• Demand planning forecasts with customizable period buckets


• Weekly forecasts


• Forecasts for units or product groups


• Loads forecasts and sales and production orders separately


• Load methods for forecasting include manual input, statistical generation, or planning bills


• Rolls forecasts forward using current report format


• Nets actual demand by sales order


• Nets actual demand against future or past forecasts (consumption forecast)


• Uses component forecasts to plan configured component consumption


• Nets actual demand against forecast by project


• Establishes policy (time fence) for removing forecasts from the master schedule


• Uses a time fence to change forecasted customer orders to firm orders


• Demand schedules incorporate forecasts, sales and production orders, or other demand schedules


• Material planning by project components, commercial components, or both


• Generates and executes planning BOMs at final assembly, and at product group and master scheduling levels


• Maintains planning BOMs online, in real time


• Effectivity dates for planning BOMs


• Displays master scheduling algorithms


• Generates MPS from order forecasts, on-hand materials, and throughput capacity


• All levels of a BOM can be added to a master schedule


• Any item can be added to the master schedule at any level


• Scheduling for more than one plant


• User can define MPS limits while online


• Engineering changes processed on the basis of ECNs, use-up effectivity, plan substitutes, etc.


• Processes scrap and yield by order, component, and operation yield


• Batch quantity


• Finite scheduling


• Infinite scheduling


• Schedule smoothing


• Firms planned orders automatically


• Generates new planned orders


• Discrete job and repetitive production planning


• Engineering changes include ECO use-up alerts


• Calculates ATP by period


• Automatic ATP maintenance after all transactions


• Open order can be viewed by item, supplier, or master schedule


• ATP and other planning issues can be viewed by item in real time


• MPS provides visibility into planned and purchase orders and requirements, discrete jobs, and repetitive schedules


• Production and shipment states can be viewed with actual versus scheduled data


• Displays demand and production forecasts by product family and item


• Visibility into late orders, supplier modifications, and recommended purchase requisitions


• Forecast consumptions can be pegged to specific sales orders


• Demand reductions are traceable to specific manufacturing orders and shipments (schedule relief)


• Pegs requirements to forecasts and receipts


• Supply and demand pegging for one or more level


• Identifies authorized planners


• Manual or automatic action messages from MRP include expedite, cancel, and defer


• Manual or automatic action messages from MRP are sent to peg MPS orders


• Load profile can be edited in real time, online


• Edits item requirements online


• Adds FPO to MPS


• Compares planned and actual MPS


• Supply and demand analyses available online


• Alerts


• Generates exception reporting by individual responsible for planning


• Collaborative workbench is used by planners to update, release, and reschedule orders, and review or provide order action dispositions


• Real-time work center capacity planning and analyses


• Production models based on multiple concurrent demand and manufacturing schedules


• Compares master manufacturing and demand schedules


• Concurrent relief of multiple master schedule versions


• Creates rough-cut capacity plans


• Common parts BOMs and phantom BOMs


• Repetitive schedule planning with production rate changes


• Limits the number of early day deliveries


• Short term plans include planning time fences and FPOs


• MPS are relieved as work orders are submitted


• Relieves master demand schedules as orders are shipped


• MPS reports by time period, providing visibility into demand forecasts, master demand schedules, customer requirements, schedule receipts, and prior master schedules


• Real time MPS reports online


• MPS reports pegged to production orders online


• Shop calendar reports, online


• Generates reports on criteria used to create the MPS


• Generates real time reports on planning bills


• Generates product load profile reports in real time


• Track changes made to planning bills and report in real time


• Valuates MPS using standard costs, and generates a report in real time


• Cost of items used in the MPS is summarized by product line and group


• Generates cost reports using forecasted future costs, in real time


• MPS pegging reports in real time


• Generates MPS performance reports in real time


• "Pushes" forecasts to vendors based on production plan and MPS


• Calculates fixed-period inventory level in dollars


• Sales and operations planning tool