Manufacturing ➔ Planning ➔ Master Production Schedule
You can obtain an overview of the available Master Production Schedules (MPS) in this screen. In an MPS, you can define the number of items that need to be produced in a certain period based on the sales forecast. The MPS is also used to determine expected material requirements to meet the production requirements.
The objectives of the MPS are as follows:
You can filter the MPS for items that you want to plan or forecast for. To filter, you can define one or more of the following criteria and click Start. The items that match the filter criteria you have entered are then displayed in the MPS.
Type or select the warehouse to display the MPS created for the selected warehouse.
Type or select the desired budget scenario to display the MPS with that selected budget scenario. This enables you to simulate a What-if analysis to estimate when a certain amount of items will be required.
The planning period is automatically set as the planned period defined for the budget scenario. It can be Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, 4-weekly, Monthly or Quarterly. You can create a budget scenario at System ➔ Finance ➔ Budget scenarios.
Type or select a start date or a range of start dates to display the MPS that falls within that date range. When a date range is entered, then Year, Month and Week will be disabled. Select the All check box to see the MPS for all dates within the period defined for the selected budget scenario.
Select the year or a range of years to display the MPS that falls within that year range. Select the All check box to see the MPS for all the years within the period defined for the selected budget scenario.
Type a month or a range of months (valid month in numerical format) to display the MPS that falls within that month range. Select the All check box to see the MPS for all the months within the period defined for the selected budget scenario.
Type a week or a range of weeks (valid week in numerical format) to display the MPS that falls within that week range. Select the All check box to see the MPS for all the weeks within the period defined for the selected budget scenario.
Note: You can specify only one of these period filters at a time: Date, Month, or Week. The Date/Year/Month/Week must also fall within the year/period that is defined for the selected budget scenario.
Type or select the item group or a range of item groups to display the MPS with the selected item groups. Select the All check box to see the MPS for all item groups.
Type or select the item or a range of items to display the MPS with the selected item. Select the All check box to see the MPS for all items.
Select Standard to display the MPS with a standard column width, or 150% to display the MPS with the column width at 150%.
Click this to generate the MPS in Microsoft Excel.
Click this to display the MPS based on the defined criteria.
Click this to exit.