Costpoint Master Production Scheduling (MPS) makes it possible for you to plan and manage end item production to meet customer demand within your resource constraints. In MPS, you're generally working with both firm, independent, demand (actual sales orders and reservations), and forecasts of what you anticipate selling or consuming. By combining these requirements, you can come up with a comprehensive production schedule. This production schedule will be used to generate Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) plans for all components and subassemblies needed for the end items.
The MPS module lets you enter, copy and maintain time-phased demand forecasts for both end items and their components. These demand forecasts will be used by MPS and MRP to drive manufacturing and purchasing activities.
The MPS module is linked to the Sales Order module to allow for the automatic consumption of sales forecasts as firm sales orders are received. In addition to sales forecasts, you can enter and maintain other forecasts that cannot be consumed by sales orders.
Costpoint MPS also makes it possible for you to create "what-if" production scenarios by setting up alternative MPS planning codes. Forecasts can be copied to/from the main production plan and what-if plans. Once an alternative plan has been set up, the MPS and MRP process can generate planned orders and messages for each plan, allowing you to see the impact of the alternate plan on production and purchasing.
A Rough-Cut Capacity planning function is included in the MPS module to allow you to determine, at a high-level, how user-defined key resources will be impacted by a given MPS plan. You can define planning routings for end items, or use manufacturing bill of material and routing information to generate them automatically. The planning routings will be multiplied by firm and forecasted independent demand to determine the load on each key resource by week and to identify over-capacity conditions.
The MPS function will generate planned orders and action messages for MPS planned parts. Purchase requisitions, manufacturing orders, and transfer reservations can be generated from these planned orders (for the production MPS code only). Use the reports and inquiries to review requirements and inventory status by project, part, or netting group.
You set up netting groups in the Production Control application. Each netting group consists of a group of inventory projects.
During planning processes, Costpoint treats the netting group as a single entity.
You must have Costpoint MRP in order to use Costpoint MPS.
To generate planning routings for rough-cut capacity planning automatically, you must also have Costpoint Routings.
To consume sales forecasts automatically, it is suggested that you also have Costpoint Sales Order Entry.
Costpoint Master Production Scheduling consists of the following menus: