Master Production Scheduling
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 generally work 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 is used to generate Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) plans for all components and subassemblies needed for the end items.
You can enter, copy, and maintain time-phased demand forecasts for both end items and their components. These demand forecasts are used by MPS and MRP to drive manufacturing and purchasing activities.
The MPS module is linked to the Sales Order Entry 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. After 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 effect 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 are affected 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 are 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 generates 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.
Set up netting groups in Production Control. Each netting group consists of a group of inventory projects. During planning processes, Costpoint treats the netting group as a single entity.
These are the requirements and recommendations when using the Master Production Scheduling module:
- You must have the Material Requirements Planning module to use Master Production Scheduling.
- To generate planning routings for rough-cut capacity planning automatically, you must also have the Routings module.
- To consume sales forecasts automatically, Deltek recommends that you have the Sales Order Entry module.