Production planning: what to buy, what to make and when.
Sincow MRP calculates requirements from sales orders, inventory and open orders, and schedules the plant according to each work center’s capacity.
From sales order to plant plan, with numbers.
Planning uses the bill of materials from costing and sends its suggestions to purchasing.
MRP run
Explodes the bill of materials at every level, with lead times, lot sizes and safety stock.
Suggestions
Suggested purchases by supplier, suggested production and orders worth rescheduling.
Planning data
By group or item: whether it’s bought or made, lead time, lot size and safety stock.
Production routings
Sequence of operations by work center and machine, with setup and run times.
Work centers and machines
Shift, parallel units, efficiency, utilization and cost per hour.
Work center load
Required vs. available hours, week by week, with an overload traffic light.
Order scheduling
Places operations on the calendar to meet the delivery date and flags the ones running late.
Shop floor tracking
Dispatch list by work center and progress of each order by operation.
A plan you can actually meet.
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Orders and inventory
The run takes what was ordered, what’s available and the open orders.
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Suggestions
What to buy, what to make and what to reschedule.
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Scheduling
Orders are placed according to each work center’s capacity.
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Tracking
Actual progress by operation and plant performance.
The information to decide, without building reports.
All of them export to Excel and PDF.
- Inventory projection, exception messages and shortages for open orders
- Work center utilization, standard vs. actual by operation, and rejects
- Plant performance by work center, operator or order
- Data quality: items without a routing, cost, bill of materials or supplier
Suggestions reach purchasing on their own.
The bill of materials comes from costing, suggested purchases go to the purchasing inbox and operator absences are taken from payroll.
Included in:can be added to any plan. Compare plans
Questions about production planning
Does the MRP account for what I’ve already ordered?
Yes. The run considers available inventory and open purchase and production orders.
Can I see if the plant is overloaded?
Yes. Work center load marks each week as normal, at the limit or overloaded.
How do I measure operator efficiency?
With plant performance, which compares standard hours earned with actual hours and rejects.
How much does it cost?
It depends on the modules and users you need. Request a demo and we’ll send you a proposal.
Other modules:AccountingTreasury and bankingAccounts receivableAccounts payableFixed assetsPublic sector budgetInventory and invoicingMaterials and purchasingProduction and costingElectronic payrollE-invoicing
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