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Purpose

The planning table provides the basis for planning and production control in Repetitive Manufacturing.

It contains a periodic view of the master plan with the planning and control tools necessary for maintaining production quantities to ensure a smooth production process.

You can also process planned orders directly in the planning table. Every change you make immediately affects the capacity situation.

You can also process production orders in the planning table. For example, you can change quantities, dates and components, and you can also release the production order. Every change you make immediately affects the capacity situation.

Prerequisites

You must maintain a valid production version in the material master record before you can display and process the material in the planning table.

Note Note

You must also create a production version if you want to use other functions available in Repetitive Manufacturing, such as the backflushing functions. You do not require a production version if you work with make-to-order production.

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Process flow

  1. Create the master plan.

You have various options for creating the master plan:

You can carry out a planning run in which the planned orders and run schedule quantities are created automatically.

  • If you only produce the material on one production line, you can instruct the system to assign the planned orders or the run schedule quantities to the production line automatically. To do this, in the material master record of the material, in the MRP data, select an alternative indicator which selects the BOM using the production version.

  • If you produce the material on several production lines, you can use quota arrangements for the automatic assignments to the production lines. To do this, create a quota arrangement in the MRP master data and activate the quota arrangement usage in the MRP data in the material master record.

On completion of the planning run, you can process the master plan in the planning table.

You can also create the master plan manually by directly entering the planned production quantities in the planning table.

  1. Access the planning table.

  2. The planning table is displayed according to your selections on the initial screen. The system displays all material and line data according to these selections. Thus, you can display the capacity data for several production lines at the same time.

    When accessing the planning table, you can define certain criteria to sort materials and lines. For example, you can exclude all materials for which no requirements or receipts exist in the period of examination (the system uses the basic dates when determining which receipts are to be displayed).

    If necessary, you can also list your selected materials in the collective display first where you can limit the selection further by using exception messages, for example. Or you can search for specific problem cases.

    You specify in the initial screen whether the planning table is to work together with sequencing or capacity planning.

  3. Process the planning table.

  4. You have several options for processing the master plan in the planning table:

    For example, you can change quantities and assign quantities to other production lines. You can reverse already assigned quantities and you can change dates.

    The system takes note of every change you make and, in the background, automatically updates the orders or run schedule quantities that lie behind the individual quantities.

    You can split the planned orders over days or shifts.

    You can plan capacity for all production lines displayed. The capacity load of a production line is displayed as a percentage. You can also instruct the system to display the available capacity, capacity requirements and the capacity load. The system highlights overloads so that they can be recognized immediately and processed on time to avoid capacity bottlenecks.

    The capacity planning table is integrated with Repetitive Manufacturing as a support for capacity leveling. The system immediately transfers the planning results from the capacity planning table to the planning table.

    If you work with Sequencing, the planned orders are scheduled and dispatched with the help of sequencing. Here, you can switch to the sequence schedule to display the sequence of the planned orders or to dispatch planned orders to another production line.

  5. Save the processed planning table.

Result

The processed planning table provides the basis for production.

This may be required, for example, if one production line should be in need of repair without much prior warning.

If you require work documents for production, you can print out a run schedule dispatch list and a list of the production orders in the planning table.