Production Planning is the process of creating Production Jobs in advance of the production process.
The production plan is formed around a defined set of production templates sometimes called ‘Bills of Material’ or a ‘recipe’.
Production Jobs dictate the material input and output for the production process.
The production plan will dictate how much of each product is required on a given day, which production lines these should be created from, and in some instances, what order the production process should be done in.
The planning uses the ‘Production Sequencer’ tool in Sys|dem Office.
The MRP tool can be used to create Assembly Production jobs based on the requirements forecast.
This tool will also consider the requirement for the component items and if there is a sufficient amount of these items in stock for the production to go ahead.
At the end, the MRP process will suggest Purchase Orders and Production Jobs for the required amounts.