Master Scheduling - Key Concepts and Procedures

• Description
• Forecast Management
  • Processing
  • Considerations
• Multi-Level Forecast Generation
• Tentative Master Schedule Generation
  • Processing
  • Considerations
• Rough-Cut Capacity Planning
  • Processing
  • Considerations
• Final Schedule Generation
  • Processing
  • Considerations
• Master Scheduled Parts, Requirements Planning Parts, and Service Parts
• Planning Periods
• Converted Production Types
• Revision Level Generation
• Implementing Changes Within the Firm Time Fence
• JIT Planning Action Messages
• Potency
  • Creating a Potency-Controlled Environment
  • Defining a Part's Standard Potency
  • Defining the Potency of a Lot
  • Calculating Potent Units
  • Displaying Quantities in Potent or Standard Units
  • Changing Potency, and/or the Available for Planning Flag, and the Net Change Flag
  • Objects not Affected by the Potency Beginning Balance Calculations
• Exhibit A: Calculating the Master Schedule
• Exhibit B: Demand Netting Logic
  • Partial Week Processing
• Exhibit C: Tentative Schedule/Current Schedule/Projected Inventory
  • Assumptions
• Exhibit D: Balance Types, Warehouse Description Flags, and Relief Code
  • Example 1: Inventory Available for Manufacturing and Distribution; Sales Order Planning Flag = Y
  • Example 2: Inventory Available for Manufacturing and Distribution; Sales Order Planning Flag = N
  • Example 3: Manufacturing & Planning Inventory Separate; Sales Order Planning Flag = N

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