Planning Workbench - Horizontal Material Planning

Horizontal Planning A planning horizon is the period during which a plan will be in effect. The 'planning horizon' is how far to plan forward, and is determined by how far ahead demand is known and by the lead times through the operation.

MRP Time-phased record MRP has as base a record basic that represents the position and the plans as respect to the production and stocks from each item which can be a raw material, half finished product or finished product, along the time. This kind of record is called as basic record from MRP time to time - MRP Time-phased record. The elements from this record has yours own details (particularity) as following.

Available-to-Promise (ATP) Ability to promise product for customer orders based on uncommitted inventory,planned production, and material.

Beginning On Hand Initial stock from MRP (Before start the calculation)

Current Scheduled Receipts Actual planned receipt or what is expect to receive from orders already approved and in process.

Dependent Demand Demand for an item that is directly related to or derived from the demand for other items.

Expected Scrap Scrap expect from a production order. It's common when we it's used the backflush

Expired Lots Lots with dates from outdated expiration. It's a material in stock that must be scraped soon.

Forecast An estimate of future demand on inventory items. A forecast contains information on the original and current forecast quantities (before and after consumption), the confidence factor, and any specific customer information. You can assign any number of inventory items to the forecast and use the same item in multiple forecasts. For each inventory item you specify any number of forecast entries.

Gross Requirements The total of independent and dependent demand for an item before the netting of on-hand inventory and scheduled receipts. In transit Material in transit. It's a common situation when it's used an internal requisition In receiving Material already received, but isn't in stock (common to the situation where exist an material inspection)

Other Independent Demand It is the demand of origin of the consuming market. The demand of origin of another piece in the company is the dependent demand

Payback Demand Temporary material transfer when one project borrows demand from another project.

Payback Supply Temporary material transfer when one project lends supply to another project.

Planned Orders A suggested quantity, release date, and due date that satisfies net item requirements. MRP owns planned orders, and may change or delete the orders during subsequent MRP processing if conditions change. MRP explodes planned orders at one level into gross requirements for components at the next lower level (dependent demand). Planned orders along with existing discrete jobs also serve as input to capacity requirements planning, describing the total capacity requirements throughout the planning horizon.

Projected On Hand The total quantity on hand plus the total scheduled receipts plus the total planned orders.

Projected Available Balance Quantity on hand projected into the future if scheduled receipts are rescheduled or cancelled, and new planned orders are created as per recommendations made by the planning process. Calculated by the planning process as current and planned supply (nettable quantity on hand + scheduled receipts + planned orders) minus demand (gross requirements). Note that gross requirements for projected available includes derived demand from planned orders. Note also that the planning process uses suggested due dates rather than current due dates to pass down demand to lower level items. See current projected on hand.

Purchase orders A type of purchase order you issue when you request delivery of goods or services for specific dates and locations. You can order multiple items for each planned or standard purchase order. Each purchase order line can have multiple shipments and you can distribute each shipment across multiple accounts. See standard purchase order and planned purchase order.

Requisitions See purchase requisition and internal sales order.

Safety Stock Quantity of stock planned to have in inventory to protect against fluctuations in demand and/or supply.

Sales Orders Commitment between the salesperson and the customer Total Supply It should includes all the entrances of material of the company (purchase orders, production orders for finished products and sub-assemblies, material transfers)

WIP (Work in Process) An item in various phases of production in a manufacturing plant. This includes raw material awaiting processing up to final assemblies ready to be received into inventory.

Setting up Planner Workbench Each one from the options to the horizontal planning described above can be configured Navigating to the Preferences window from the Tools menu Choosing the Horizontal Material Plan tabbed region.