Basic Manufacturing

Production Orders

• Production orders (including simulated, planned, firm planned, released and finished orders) created and handled

• Production orders planned from sales orders as standard, project, or multiline

• Reservation system provides for hard and soft allocation

• Blanket orders created for the efficient execution of long-term contracts

• Serial and lot number processing handled

• Flexible costing system provided for standard, average, FIFO, LIFO and specific costing

• Multi-dimensional tracking and pegging provided to make data more visible

• Forward, backward and manual flushing supported

• Consumption and output journals produced

• Production reports produced (for example, “where used” reports)

• Costs tracked and landed costs handled

Production Bill of Materials

• Production Bills Of Material (BOMs), including phantom BOMs, created

Version Management

• Versions of manufacturing bills of materials and routings created and handled

Supply Planning

Basic Supply Planning

• Order promising provides for both available-to-promise (ATP) and capable-to-promise (CTP)

• Multilocation planning facilitates efficient information and material flow through the supply chain

• Intelligent MRP scheduling (incl. regenerative, net change and action message planning)

• Interactive action messaging—for the immediate balancing of supply and demand

• Simultaneous planning of materials, capacities and costs

• Item availability windows allow planners to instantly view the results of MRP

• Multiple worksheets for reviewing various production options

• Make or buy decisions implemented on the fly

• Variants in planning

Demand Forecasting

• Forecast and Master Production Schedule (MPS)

Capacity Requirements Planning

Basic Capacity Planning

• Shop calendar and work shifts

• Routings

• Parallel scheduling

• “Send ahead” functionality for Just-in-Time (JIT) production

• Routing link codes for automatic flushing per operational steps on the routing

• Scrap and stop codes can be defined to reduce data entry

• Automatic flushing of the work or machine center provides automatic recording of expected output

• Subcontracting by work center or operation

Machine Centers

• Allocates work and machine centers as capacities to the manufacturing process

Finite Loading

• Finite loading of capacity constrained resources

• Capacity constraints taken into account (to help planners make more reliable plans)