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CMS Production Planning

Benefits

The flexibility of the Production Planning module allows you to select a starting point consistent with how you now do business and allows you to advance to a level of sophistication consistent with your strategic goals. The unique CMS method of simultaneously planning materials and capacity requirements allows you to accurately schedule all manufacturing resources: materials, labor, workcenters, outside processing, and tooling. Capacity can be planned on a finite basis considering current work load as well as the anticipated or planned work load. Unlike other manufacturing planning systems, CMS provides the control and information needed by management to optimize productivity.

Product Summary

The CMS Production Planning module provides the means to accomplish Master Production Scheduling (MPS), Materials Requirements Planning (MRP), and Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) simultaneously and dynamically. The Production Planning module integrates with other CMS modules: Inventory, Bills of Material, Workcenter Capacity, Production Routings, Purchasing and Receiving, Shop Floor Control, and Demand Management including Forecasts and Sales Orders.

You can choose where to begin on a continuum from traditional Re-Order Point methods all the way to real-time just-in-time planning if desired.

The basic Planning function operates within a 490 day planning calendar and works backwards from the demand completion date. It examines time-phased available inventory, purchase lead times, and workcenter capacities (with additional user-defined factors), to determine whether or not a demand can be met on time. User-set "switches" determine the treatment of alternate parts, alternate route steps, pegging of demands to required actions, split shipments, and the unique CMS jump logic.

Production Planning Features

The Production Planning module allows you to attach production routings to bills of materials to accurately plan material consumption as required. If an entire quantity can't be fulfilled by the date requested, calculation of how many units can be produced by that date is provided. Delivery dates for the backordered quantity will also be calculated.

The system provides hard pegging of dependent demands to sales and sales forecasts. It provides flexibility through a user set matrix of planning behavior rules for control of reporting, tooling, use of alternate route steps, use of alternate parts, jump factors when a demand must be planned late, split shipments and over-scheduling of labor intensive workcenters to determine multi-shift requirements.

The Production Planning module supports the following demand types: nettable sales orders, non-nettable sales orders, requisitions, forecasts, procurements, and preventive maintenance. Shortages or surpluses are highly visible anywhere and as soon as they occur, and the means to put plans in place to resolve these situations are convenient. The system allows the user to plan individual demands, or ranges of demands, to unplan individual demands, or ranges of demands, to expedite, and to establish user-defined priorities or to do a global regeneration.

You may define the capacity characteristics at near infinite (999999 capacity units per workcenter per day). You may establish an individual calendar for each workcenter and include the plant holiday calendar. You may define routing steps including: move queue, set-up, run-time, and percent of total cost of total job through this step, percent yield expected in this step, description of this step, the ability to indicate outside vendor steps, complete copy-from, copy-to, and same-as-except capability for routing definitions and concurrent workcenter requirements.

Major Displays

• Planned inventory position and available-to-commit quantities
• Job/Purchase advice details
• Routings
• Bill of Material explosions, where used, and revision history
• Effectivity dates
• Workcenter details (capacity usage by day by job or part)
• Planned sources and applications of inventory
• Check for surplus, safety stock intrusion, and critical shortages

Major Reports

• Current Status of Demands
• Map planned inventory position details for up to six quarters into the future and flag problem areas
• Map workcenter loading for a specific workcenter, a range of workcenters or all workcenters for a range of dates
• Planning (and Unplanning) reports to track results of each planned or unplanned demand, including a procurement summary, a summary of workcenter capacity reserved by day, and a narrative description of the planning process.

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