Production Planning Section - For Production Planner
The Production Planning module allows:
- scheduling manufacturing orders,
- material and capacity planning,
- assigning resources (parts, equipment, workers),
- tracking the use of parts and fulfillment of work operations,
- click-and-drag rescheduling,
- seeing the production calendar and Gantt charts,
- managing Bills of Materials and Routings,
- managing Workstations,
- seeing manufacturing statistics.
The Production planning section has the following sub-sections:
- Manufacturing orders - a list of all manufacturing orders (MO), including service and repair orders.
- Production schedule - the master production schedule, which shows all the manufacturing orders that have been scheduled, and allows click-and-drag rescheduling.
- Workstations - a list of all workstations.
- Workstation groups - a list of all workstation groups.
- BOMs - a list of all bills of materials.
- Routings - a list of all routings.
- Statistics - statistical reports generated based on manufacturing orders.
Production Planning - Frequently Asked Questions
Scheduling new manufacturing orders:
- How to schedule a Manufacturing Order?
- How is a Bill of Materials used in production scheduling?
- How is an operation's duration calculated?
- How are manufacturing overhead, labor, and materials costs calculated?
- How to edit the proposed schedule - materials, operations, workers?
- How are operations assigned to workers? How to set default workers or deparments?
- What is finite resources scheduling? What is material and capacity planning?
- What is forward scheduling?
- What is backward scheduling?
- What is a multi-level manufacturing order?
- How to schedule subcontracted services?
- How to schedule make-to-order bespoke manufacturing?
- Demo video: How to create Manufacturing Orders.
Administrating manufacturing orders:
- Where do I see the master production schedule?
- How to view the Gantt chart of production operations?
- How are manufacturing overhead, labor, and materials costs calculated?
- What are the parts statuses? What does the color coding mean?
- How to book, add or release materials from manufacturing orders?
- How to edit an operation, e.g. to assign workers, etc.?
- How to return a finished manufacturing order back to production?
- What are the Manufacturing Order statuses, how are the statuses updated?
- What is a multi-level manufacturing order?
- How to add important notes or a flag to an order?
- How to record serial numbers?
- How to keep track of subcontracted operations?
- How to approve or release a Manufacturing Order for production?
- How to create the Materials requisition sheet?
- Demo video: The Manufacturing Order Details page.
Re-scheduling manufacturing orders:
- What options are available for rescheduling manufacturing orders?
- How to dynamically reschedule manufacturing orders?
- How to book, add or release materials from manufacturing orders?
- How to manually edit an operation, e.g. to change workstation, worker, duration etc.?
- How to change the manufacturing order quantity?
- Demo video: How to dynamically drag-and-drop reschedule in the production calendar and Gantt charts.
Production reporting for planner:
- Production reporting FAQ for workers.
- How to edit an operation, e.g. to fix input mistakes?
- How to force finish a manufacturing order as the production planner/manager?
- How to return a finished manufacturing order back to production?
Human resources planning in manufacturing:
- How to assign an operation to a worker from an MO?
- How are operations assigned to workers? How to set default workers or deparments?
- What is a department?
- How to plan works by departments? How to assign operations to departments?
- How to report production operations using the departments?
- How to plan human resources when production is constrained by skilled workers?
- How to optimize production scheduling when workers' availability is constrained or unreliable?
- How to assign default departments to operations or workstations?
Production capacity - workstations and workstation groups:
- What is a workstation group?
- What is a workstation?
- What are the workstation properties?
- What are workstation group's properties?
- How to schedule and perform workstation maintenance?
- How are manufacturing overhead and labor costs calculated?
- What is a routing? How is it used in production planning?
- Demo video: How to define workstation groups and workstations.
Bills of Materials management:
- What is a Bill of Materials (BOM)? How is it used in material planning?
- How to add a Bill of Materials in MRPeasy?
- How to create a multi-level BOM?
- How to import a BOM?
- How to update many BOMs at once?
- How is the cost of the BOM estimated?
- How is the actual cost of materials for a product calculated?
- How to update the BOM of already planned Manufacturing Orders?
- How to track changes to a BOM (revisions)?
- Demo video: How to define Bills of Materials (BOM).
Routings management:
- What is a routing? How is it used in production planning?
- How to enter a Routing in MRPeasy?
- How is the operation duration calculated?
- How are manufacturing overhead, labor, and materials costs calculated?
- Examples of Routings.
- How to define subcontracted operations in the Routing?
- How to update the Routings of already planned Manufacturing Orders?
- How to track changes to a Routing (revisions)?
- How to export a Routing?
- How to import a Routing?
- Demo video: How to define Routings.
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