Master Scheduling

What the plant commits to finish, and whether the critical resources could stand it.

13 steps · 10 questions · 5 screens on this shelf

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• Master Schedule Board The grid a master scheduler works in: forecast and orders consumed against each other, the balance carried for
• Master Production Schedules What the plant commits to finish, period by period. The consumption rule is the whole point: a company that ad
• Schedule Periods One row per period. Forecast, orders and the carried balance are computed; the quantity and the firm flag are
• Bills of Resources What one unit costs in critical-resource time — deliberately coarser than the routing. The offset matters: pre
• Rough-Cut Capacity The load a master schedule would place on the critical resources, months before a routing is ever exploded. Ke

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