Upgrade Supply Planning to Material Requirements Planning and Master Production Schedule

This section is for administrators who upgrade existing Supply Planning accounts to the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Master Production Schedule (MPS) features. Material Requirements Planning helps production managers schedule and place orders for items that depend on demand. The Master Production Schedule helps you plan when and how much of an item will need to be produced.

To upgrade to the current version, complete the following required and optional setup procedures:

• Enabling Supply Planning Features

• Setting Supply Planning Preferences

• Setting Up Required Items

• Setting Up Optional Items

• Defining Demand Definitions

• Setting Up Distribution Resource Planning

• Supply Planning Parameters

Material Requirements Planning and Master Production Schedule provide several benefits that help organizations that need to procure and build material resources for sale. Some of these benefits are:

• Improved performance

• Enhanced visibility with the supply planning workbench

• Limits removed for the number of items

  For example, the length of planning horizon.

• Plan across multiple locations

This supply planning solution provides several Item and Item Location parameters. These parameters include:

• Work Order Fixed Lead Time – Fixed period for calculating work order lead-time.

• Work Order Variable lead Time – Variable period by unit for calculating work order lead-time.

• Work Order Lead Time Lot Size -Lot size for calculating work order lead-time.

• Late Period Days -Number of past days the system can search for past due orders.

• Reschedule Horizon -Number of days from today the system can scan for future rescheduling opportunities.

• Minimum Reschedule Days - Number of days the system will reschedule an order (in or out) from its current period.

• Past Due Forecast Days -Number of days in the past the system will search for overdue unconsumed forecast.

• High Impact Late Demand Threshold -Threshold for highlighting late demand as high impact in the workbench.

• Firm/Release Advance Warning – Threshold used by the system to determine when a warning message should be generated.

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