Requirements Planning

 

Objective

 

To create realistic purchasing and production schedules, optimize stock holdings and identify capacity constraints in a multi-site and multi-warehouse environment.

 

The Value of Requirements Planning

• Meet demand with effective planning of required material and production capacity
• Identify usage of critical resources with rough-cut capacity planning
• Easily create build schedules from Master Production Schedule (MPS) suggestions
• Suggest purchasing, production and transfer schedules to satisfy demand
• Create and amend purchase orders and jobs based on suggestions with powerful, on-screen reviews
• Test plans before updating the live system with ‘snapshot’ functionality
• Control inventory levels by identifying potential oversupply
• Avoid bottlenecks by reviewing average queue times
• Manage lot traceable items including tracking expiration dates
• Preview reports to screen and email capabilities

Matching Requirements Planning to your business

• Calculate material and capacity requirements under an infinite or finite capacity assumption
• Create actual purchase orders, work orders or requisitions from suggestions
• Generate supply chain transfers from suggestions for transfers between warehouses
• Accept suggested changes to existing purchase orders and jobs based on changes in demand
• Detailed pegging information available in queries and reports
• Define Gross Requirements rule per item
• Define planning frequencies, lead times and planning horizons for time fence indicators
• Query MRP calculation results with pegging details
• View capacity load in a bar chart or report form
• Quickly identify overloaded work centers
• Critical resource queries facilitate effective planning
• View and report planning details in any time period with bucketless environment
• Optional inclusion/exclusion of requisition users