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Material planning

Updated in 5.20.70

Material planning says what to buy, what to make, what to have made outside and what to move between warehouses, and by when. It reads the open sales orders, the master schedule and the forecasts, and nets them against the stock, what is on order and what is being made, through every level of the bills of materials.

Where

Manufacturing › Material planning

Who

«Read the material plan» reads it, «Run material planning» runs it, «Accept and ignore planning suggestions» decides. Accepting also asks the right of the document it makes: «Create» purchase requests, «Plan production orders», or «Create» internal transfers.

Run the planning

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Press Run the planning now. It also runs by itself every night while Manufacturing is on (Setup › Settings › Manufacturing).
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The card under the title says when it last ran, how many suggestions it made and what it read: sales order lines, schedule lines, forecasts, production orders, purchase lines, items and levels.
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Each suggestion says its Kind (Buy, Make, Made outside, Move), the Quantity, the Warehouse, the day to Start on and the day it is Needed by. A start day that has already passed is said late. The Level is 0 for what is sold, 1 for its parts, and so on.
Material planning: the last run and its suggestions

See why

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Open a suggestion. Flowrica says what it suggests, the day to start and why that day, what was on hand, on order and being made.
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The demand it answers lists each demand and how much of it: a sales order, the master schedule, a forecast, a production order, a part of another suggestion, its minimum or maximum, its least order or multiple. A sales order and a production order open from their reference.
One suggestion with Flowrica's lines and the demand it answers

Accept or ignore

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Tick one or many, then press Accept. Every buy accepted together becomes one purchase request; each make becomes a draft production order (for the sales order line when one line alone drove it); each move becomes an internal transfer waiting for its approval; a made-outside one is kept for subcontracting.
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Ignore asks for a reason. An ignored suggestion is kept, and the same one in a later run stays ignored. Open it from the Ignored tab and press Open it again to undo.
Suggestions chosen, with Accept and Ignore

Reorder rules

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In Manufacturing › Reorder rules, a rule is for the whole company or for one warehouse: its Safety stock, Minimum and Maximum, Least order and multiple, and the Days to buy and Days to make.
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Replenished says how: made when it has a bill of materials (else bought), bought, made, made outside, or moved from another warehouse. A warehouse moved into is filled up to its maximum from what the other warehouse has free.
The reorder rules of the workshop's items
A reorder rule being changed
An item with no rule is planned by its own minimum and maximum (Inventory › Items) and by the days set in Setup › Settings › Manufacturing.
A run makes no document: nothing is bought or made until a suggestion is accepted. Nothing is deleted: a new run replaces the open suggestions of the last one and keeps them.

Questions

Where is “Material planning” in Zyntra OS?

Manufacturing › Material planning

Who can use “Material planning”?

«Read the material plan» reads it, «Run material planning» runs it, «Accept and ignore planning suggestions» decides. Accepting also asks the right of the document it makes: «Create» purchase requests, «Plan production orders», or «Create» internal transfers.