Course Description

The purpose of this course is to educate the Manufacturing Planning core implementation team about the basic and intermediate functionalities of Manufacturing Planning as a Capacity Planning, Master Production Scheduling, Detailed Scheduling tool. The hands-on session trains participants via a step-by-step process of modeling a sample factory, incorporating one functionality at a time as it’s added to the model. This gives each participant the hands-on experience required for successful implementation. Manufacturing Planning provides the framework needed to begin the Best Practices session where the actual business models are constructed and tested.

Course Objective

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to build a capacity planning model, whether finite or rough cut.

Manufacturing Planning

    1. How to Navigate this Course

    1. MP Course Overview

    1. Data and Worksheet Setup

    2. Data Entry - PRODDATA

    3. Data Entry - Forecasts

    4. Data Entry - PRODORDR

    5. Data Entry - Unit Order

    6. Gantt Chart Overview & Overlays and Constraints

    7. Generate Capacity Plan

    8. Generate Capacity Plan in Daily Buckets and Review Results

    9. Generate Capacity Plan Sequence Using PRODORDR and Review Results

    10. Generate Capacity Plan Using Lookback

    11. Saving the Schedule

    12. Knowledge Check

    1. Into with New Table and Data Elements

    2. Adding Onhand and Updating PRODDATA

    3. Update Forecasts and Write Data

    4. Generate Capacity Plan

    5. Knowledge Check

    1. Intro with Table and Data Updates

    2. Adding Worksheets and Data

    3. Writing Data, Adding Model to MP and Generating Capacity Plan

    4. Order Fences

    5. Plotting Demand

    6. Changing Fences 42 & 21 days

    7. Changing fences 0 days

    8. Generate Capacity Plan

    9. View Preferences

    10. Save Schedule and Chapter Review

    11. Knowledge Check

    1. Intro with Table and Field Updates

    2. MP Modelling Template Data Updates

    3. Navigation, Rows on Gantt Chart and Reading Receipts

    4. Generate Capacity Plan

    5. Plotting and BOM

    6. Saving Schedule and Review

    7. Knowledge Check

About this course

  • Free
  • 83 lessons