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Manage Master Production Schedules

Use this screen to view and maintain a master production schedule for a given part.

This screen displays the results from Update Master Production Schedules screen and also allows you to create and maintain forecasts and supply orders manually. You can see the "official" MPS plan (labeled P to indicate that it is the Production plan) as well as "what-if" plans here.

On this screen, you can add, modify, or delete sales and user-defined forecasts for MPS and MRP planned parts. Costpoint uses these forecast quantities, along with other independent demand, to drive the MPS and MRP planning processes and generate planned orders and action messages as appropriate. For parts that are not MPS planned, you can create and maintain forecast information but you cannot create or maintain planned orders for that part on this screen.

You can also use this screen to add, modify, or delete planned orders for MPS planned parts. You can view and implement MPS action messages on this screen.

MPS Planning-only parts allow you to specify a forecast for a product family without knowing the exact part configuration and options that will be sold in the future. MPS Planning-Only parts are defined using a part type on the Manage Parts screen in the Product Definition module. These parts do not represent actual, physical, parts; they are used to hold combinations of different options along with the anticipated sales mix percentage for each option. This option mix information is stored in the manufacturing bill of material. For example, if you sell a computer workstation with options for different hard disks, you can define a manufacturing BOM that reflects the percentage of each hard drive you anticipate selling. For instance, if you sell 200-gigabyte hard drives three times more often than 350-gigabyte hard drives, you can set up a BOM component quantity of .75 for the 200-gigabyte hard drive and a .25 component quantity for the 300-gigabyte hard drive.

Since MPS planning-only parts are not "real" parts, you can create orders for them or store them in inventory. You can use forecasts to generate planned orders for MPS planning-only parts, but you cannot firm these planned orders—they are used only for driving MRP requirements for lower-level components and subassemblies. When sales orders are received for regular parts, you can have Costpoint consume the forecast quantities for MPS-planning only parts.

Before using this screen, you must create parts, including parts with a planning type of MPS, and define MPS plan types.

You will typically use this screen both before (to enter forecast data) and after (to view and adjust planned orders and action messages) processing the Update Master Production Schedules screen.

On this screen, you can:

  • View current production supply/demand schedule for a given part (or a part's product family) and project (or netting group, project planning group, and warehouse (MPS and non-MPS parts).
  • View what-if supply/demand schedule for a given part (or a part's product family) and project (or netting group, project planning group and warehouse (MPS and non-MPS parts).
  • Enter, maintain, or delete forecast quantities (MPS and non-MPS parts).
  • Load forecasts for a range of dates, or process past-due forecasts (MPS and non-MPS parts).
  • Enter, maintain, or delete MPS planned orders (MPS parts only).
  • Select planned orders for firming/release, when running the official P (Production) plan for parts that are not planning-only parts (MPS parts only).
  • Spread a single, existing planned order over multiple dates (MPS parts only).
  • Adjust firmed, released order dates and quantities (MPS parts only).
  • If allowed by the Configure Material Requirements Planning Settings screen, you can also make some modifications to existing firmed manufacturing orders, purchase orders, and requisitions (MPS parts only).

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