Production Planning

Product structure, dependent relationships and ECO functions are all fully integrated with scheduling, manufacturing routings, capacity planning and MRP.  PRO:MAN delivers maximum visibility into inventory and capacity requirements.

• Bills of Material
• Master Scheduling
• Material Requirements Planning
• Capacity Planning and Routing

Bills of Material

• Up to 99 levels
• Product structure includes:
  • Lead time offset (used for JIT inventory control)
  • Component scrap allowance
  • Absolute quantity per assembly
  • Alternate components
  • Component cost roll-up flag
  • Single and multi level BOM reporting
  • Single and multi level where-used reporting
  • Summarized BOM reporting
  • Configuration (modular) bills
  • Copy BOM

Master Scheduling

• Schedules finished goods & spare parts with dependent and independent demand
• Driven by master schedule, sales forecast and actual orders
• Sales forecast (sales orders consume the sales forecast)
• Master schedule supersedes sales forecast
• Firm planned orders
• Modification to component lists
• Available to promise projections
• Full pegging capability

Material Requirements Planning

• Net change and regenerative processing by low level code
• Flexible planning horizon
• Supports four order policies
• Fixed EOQ
• Period order quantity
• Min/Max Multiple
• Discrete quantity
• Phantom (make-on-assembly) logic
• Shop calendar
• Shrinkage by part
• Bin item planning
• Planned purchase orders
• Requirements analysis report
• Purchasing tickler report with action messages
• Tickler tolerances for accelerate and slide messages
• Multilevel BOM report with full pegging
• Obsolete part coding and reporting
• Requirements validation

Capacity Planning & Routing

• Standard operations maintenance with time study notations
• Work center maintenance
• Labor rates by work center
• Fixed and variable burden rates
• Part Routing Maintenance
• Routing copy
• Tooling, additional description, and drawing reference by routing step
• Move and queue times by routing step
• Work center where-used information
• Infinite and finite loading of work centers
• Capacity requirements graphed by work center
• Work center load detail report
• Fully integrated shop calendar

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