Manufacturing ➔ To be processed ➔ Production advice
In this screen, you can calculate the material resource planning and stock positions, create production orders of subassembly items that are manufactured, as well as replenish the minimum or maximum stock for items that are bought.
Click the required option to calculate production advice based on MRP or Stock positions. MRP calculations give you the forecast for the total quantity and cost of materials for a given period of time, so that there is a balance between demand (production order, sales order) and supply (purchase order). Calculations based on stock positions give you the overview on stock positions, such as current available stock, the demand that is requesting this item, requested quantity, quantity delivered, purchased quantity and received quantity.
Click Warehouse and then select the warehouse of your choice to view the item planning or stock positions for that specific warehouse.
Click Assortments to view a list of all your assortments. To generate a planning scheme, you can select one or several assortments at a time.
Type or select an item or a range of items to display the MRP or stock positions for the specific item(s). Select All to display production advice for all items.
Note: If you type or select only the start item then the system will display the MRP or stock positions for items with code that are equal to and greater than the selected item code. If you type or select only the end item then the system will display the MRP or stock positions for items with code that are equal to and lesser than the selected item code.
Type or select a resource ID to obtain the MRP or stock positions that have been planned by a specific planner.
If you select Stock positions at Calculation, the following options will be enabled:
Type the frequency based on the lead time of the production order. The frequency indicates the number of days between stock position calculations.
Note: By default, the frequency is 1 day and the start date is the current date. If you want a production advice to be generated for the next two weeks, type the frequency as 14 days. If an end product has a lead time of three days, type the frequency as 3 days. Then, if it turns out that a shortage will occur within the next three days, there is still time to react to the situation by creating a production order to restock to the desired level.
Select the required option to calculate stock positions based on the relative shortage quantities:
Note: The quantities used here (zero shortage quantity, purchase level quantity, and maximum stock quantity) are retrieved from Manufacturing ➔ Setup ➔ Items (Inventory tab).
Select the required option to obtain stock positions of items which have the following item attributes:
Select this check box to display stock positions based on the order policy code. Order policy codes are business rules that determine the way materials are replenished. There are two types; order controlled (Lot-for-lot) and stock controlled (Fixed, Period order, Reorder point). You can specify the order policy code for stock controlled items (Fixed, Period order, Reorder point) by going to the Inventory tab at Inventory ➔ Items ➔ Maintain. For items that are order controlled, the default order policy code is Lot-for-lot.
Note: For the order policy code of type Reorder point, the calculation for the replenishment of stock is based on the minimum purchase order level. The system only will advice to produce if the stock is less than the minimum PO level. If this condition is met, then the system will take the available stock minus the maximum stock and this is computed as shortage. If the shortage quantity can be divided by the PO size or batch size, then the system will take the shortage quantity as the advice quantity. If the shortage quantity cannot be divided by the PO size or batch size, then the system will take the shortage quantity and round down to the nearest the PO or batch size.
Select this to display stock positions for material requirements planning with empty fulfillment dates.
Select this to display stock positions for material requirements planning with quantity that is not equal to zero.
Click this to export the report to Microsoft Excel.
Click this to generate the MRP or stock positions based on the selected criteria.
Click this to exit.