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Master
Scheduling
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 With
Macola ES's Master Scheduling (M/S), the Available-To-Promise and Rough Cut
Capacity functions have been greatly enhanced to serve as a true Master Scheduling
function with multiple What-If schedules.
Important advantages of
Master Scheduling are:
- Maintain master production
schedules
- Maintain forecasts
- Interface to sales
forecasting package
- Available-to-promise
inquiry
- What-If analysis
- View schedules
- Perform rough cut capacity
calculations
Master Scheduling (M/S)
makes a statement of what the company expects to manufacture. It reflects
the overall, long-term production plans, taking into account the
company's sales forecast, material availability and plant capacity. Macola
ES's Master Scheduling allows you to closely manage the critical few indicators
which, in turn, drive the material and production plan of your remaining items.
Available-to-Promise
inquiry
Macola ES's Available-to-Promise Inquiry is one of the most advanced and comprehensive
systems available. It provides on-line and current Available-to-Promise (ATP)
information for individual inventory items and is a powerful tool to aid order
processing, sales personnel and production planning. It virtually eliminates
manually reviewing the master schedule required by other systems.
Flexible
Master Scheduling
Macola ES's Forecast Order applications in Master Scheduling allow users to
quickly enter and maintain their sales forecast. Macola ES's separate Forecast
Orders file enables users to manipulate the forecast without affecting the
schedule until the forecast is merged into the master schedule. For added
convenience, sales forecast orders can be changed, deleted and copied forward
using the Forecast application. Additional features of the Forecast application
include:
- The Forecast Order
Entry application allows users to enter forecasts for finished goods, replacement
parts and components.
- Copy and distribute
functions are also included within the Forecast Order Entry applications,
facilitating the ongoing maintenance of the forecast.
- If Material Requirements
Planning (MRP) is in use, forecast orders will be merged into MRP and used
to drive requirements.
"What-if"
schedules
Master Scheduling allows three separate schedules to be maintained to do "What-If"
analysis. Each one of these schedules allows analysis of load vs. capacity
using rough cut capacity planning and also allows flexible period based demand
vs. supply analysis. All the M/S reports and inquiries will allow reporting
against any one of the "What-If" master schedules.
Enhanced
Rough Cut Capacity Inquiry
Macola ES's Rough Cut Capacity Inquiry application provides the ideal link
to show how the master schedule will utilize the capacity of your company,
and whether or not the current schedule is feasible within its current capacity.
This unique inquiry works as a feedback to management and to the master scheduling
process. The Rough Cut Capacity Report is sequenced by work centers within
departments and shows a variety of information, including Machine or Labor
Hours, Capacity Hours versus Scheduled Hours, and net Variance Hours.
M/S can be integrated
with Production Order Processing (POP) and Shop Floor Control (SFC). It easily
lets you see which work centers are over-scheduled and which work centers
are under-scheduled, helping you manage and maximize production. Reports and
inquiries Include:
- M/S by period report/inquiry
- M/S detail report/inquiry
- What-If comparison
reports
- Rough Cut Capacity
report/inquiry
- Forecast Consumption
report/inquiry
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