HarrisData Manufacturing Planning Features

The planning process is crucial to effective manufacturing management. By planning effectively, manufacturers can reduce inventories and capital requirements significantly while improving customer responsiveness and overall productivity. HarrisData Manufacturing Planning delivers complete control over the manufacturing planning process in an easy to use, fully integrated package.

Master Production Schedule

The Master Production Schedule (MPS) is developed to satisfy market demand while optimally utilizing manufacturing resources. Key planning inputs include forecasts of customer requirements, customer orders, and inventory availability.

  • Item and family level forecasts
  • Production plan by item or family
  • User-defined time fences
  • Rough-cut capacity plan based on Bill of Resources
  • Visual inventory status

Material Requirements Planning

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) utilizes the MPS and key manufacturing constraints to generate recommended manufacturing and purchase orders for all materials required in the manufacturing process.

  • Key planning inputs
    • Master Production Schedule
    • Current open customer orders
    • Current open manufacturing orders
    • Current open purchase orders
    • On-hand inventory
  • Key manufacturing constraints
    • Lead times
    • Lot sizing rules
    • Yield, Scrap
  • Planned manufacturing & purchasing orders
    • Planned at all Bill of Material levels
    • Automatically generated online release and management
  • Intelligent planning of changed Bill of Materials
    • Consume inventory before change Immediate change
  • Kanban solvers, release and review
    • Container sizing
    • Plan number of containers
    • User defined rules

Capacity Requirements Planning

Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) evaluates work center capacity and routings to plan both labor and machine requirements for the shop floor.

  • Key planning inputs
    • Released manufacturing orders
    • Firm planned manufacturing orders
    • MRP-recommended orders
  • Key planning constraints
    • Work center machine and labor requirements
    • Setup time
    • Labor efficiency
    • Machine and labor utilization
    • Lead times between work centers
  • Capacity Requirements Plan
    • Automatically generated online graphical display of labor and machine
    • Loads by work center and department

Comprehensive Reporting

  • Master Production Schedule
  • Build Schedule
  • Customer Demand Forecast
  • Material Requirements Plan
  • MRP Explosion
  • MRP Orders
  • Pegged Requirements
  • Order Action by Buyer/Analyst
  • Capacity Requirements Planning Summary or Detail
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