MRP II & Scheduling

All Manufacturing Orders and their operations are displayed on the Gantt chart, giving planners a real-time view of the production schedule across resources.

Operations can be moved by dragging and dropping on the Gantt chart, with the schedule updating immediately to reflect the change.

Planned resource capacity is visible alongside the schedule, making it straightforward to identify overloaded or underutilized resources.

Where alternative resources are defined, planners can reassign operations to available resources directly from the Gantt chart.

A dedicated material shortage report within the Gantt chart environment identifies material shortages for specific Manufacturing Orders, alongside expected delivery dates for missing components.

The Scheduling Board manages Manufacturing Orders across multi-level product structures, considering the supply and demand dependencies between parent and sub-assembly orders.

The system identifies when a Manufacturing Order cannot be completed by its planned delivery date and suggests the earliest achievable date.

Manufacturing orders for semi-finished products can be created directly from Sales Order lines, keeping the production plan connected to customer commitments.

Manufacturing orders can be scheduled forward from a start date or backward from a required delivery date, depending on the planning approach.

Rather than defaulting to a fixed resource, the system can select the most suitable one for each operation from quantity, availability, calendar, and run time, and re-evaluates automatically when planned quantities or dates change.

A Capacity Adjustment Factor lets you schedule resources at realistic efficiency rather than assuming full output. A ten-hour operation on a machine running at 80 percent reserves twelve and a half hours, so the plan reflects what the floor can actually deliver.

Weekly capacity is defined per resource, with exceptions for additional shifts, holidays, and planned time off, so scheduling respects real working patterns.

A per-resource work queue shows current and planned work with occupancy graphs for available, occupied, and free capacity. Operations can be reordered by sorting rules or by drag and drop, and reassigned to alternative resources.

Resource usage is summarized across a chosen period, covering setup time, machine run time, and labor, filterable by Manufacturing Order, item, resource, date, and status.

A planning scenario is built from demand documents such as Sales Orders, generating Manufacturing Order Recommendations across multi-level product trees before anything is committed.

Specific resources can be declared as bottlenecks, and the Bottleneck Planning Board provides a dedicated view for managing operations on those resources. Only one operation in a product tree is scheduled on a bottleneck, keeping the focus on the true constraint.

The Slotting Panel allocates jobs to production slots with control over quantity division and replication, whether jobs expand across non-working periods or stay restricted, alignment to the earliest or latest possible time, and automatic splitting by maximum order quantity or cycle capacity.

Anchored jobs stay fixed to their resource and time regardless of changes to the scheduling window, while non-anchored jobs adjust automatically, so planners can lock down what is settled and let the rest move.

Jobs move through defined stages, from Available and Slotted through Assigned and Dispatched to Production, giving a clear view of progress through the bottleneck.

Once jobs are dispatched, the recommendations are converted into live Manufacturing Orders, connecting the planning scenario directly to production.