Supply Planning
What would have to happen for that demand to be met, infinite or finite, and the exceptions a planner actually works from.
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Material Requirements Planning
What a sales order needs, exploded through its bills of material and netted against stock and open supply. What is short is bought on a requisition naming the order, or made on a planned order that becomes its production order.
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Supply Plans
What would have to happen for the demand to be met. An INFINITE run assumes the factory can do whatever the plan asks; a FINITE one does not, and comparing them is exactly how a planner finds the bottleneck.
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Planned Orders
What the run decided should be ordered, made or moved. A proposal until somebody firms it, and firming one produces a real requisition or works order.
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Planning Exceptions
What the run wants somebody to look at. A run that produced four thousand orders and no exceptions has told nobody anything.
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Projected Stock
What is on hand, what is coming, what is wanted, week by week for six months. The single most useful screen in planning and the one thing reorder advice could never show.
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