Production & Capacity Planning

 Production & Capacity Planning System:

 Planning Production Orders based on Customer Orders or Sales Forecasts (Sales plans) from the marketing department.

• Arranging Production Orders according to a classification depends on priorities.
• Accurate definition of production resources (production lines - labor - tools) that includes working times, vacations, and periodic maintenance dates.
• Purchasing planning by issuing Purchase Requisitions to Purchasing Department to provide the needs necessary raw materials based on the available stock balances and the goods on the road.
• Reservation of raw materials in the stores.
• Allocation of the Production Orders between production resources.
• Possibility of applying JIT, JITO, or PLANNED policy in planning Production Orders.
• Generate Production Orders for each finished or semi-finished product in accordance with the applicable planning policy as shown in the previous point.
• Determine the starting and ending times for each generated Production Order for production.
• Allocation of loads between production sources.
• The possibility of trying more than one scenario for generating Production Orders and loading loads between production resources before the final approval.
• An Approval screen to define one scenario for generating Production Orders.

Bill of Materials (B.O.M):

• Bill of Materials including semi-finished and finished products.
• Possibility of registering more than one BOM for the same product.
• Dealing with normal deviations (compulsory) within the BOM.
• A special treatment to deal with the changing proportions of the active substance and its impact on the complementary materials in the BOM (such as the pharmaceutical industry).
• Allocation of components over the production stages of the product.
• Dealing with alternative items.
• Recording a validity date for the BOM.

Production Resources Planning:

• Dealing with all types of production resources (machines - labor - tools).
• Dealing with the measurement of production capacity in time or units.
• Dealing with more than one calendar for each production resource.
• Dealing with more than one shift per production resource.
• Definition of all production resources and their characteristics by the user.
• Dealing with operating through third-party systems.

Production Routes Planning:

• Dealing with more than one production route to produce a specific product.
• Linking each production route with several products.
• The possibility of dealing with production operations for each production line or production route.
• Handling the simultaneous operations, which have an overlap during the production process, whether the overlap is:

• By Time.
• Or by a percentage of the time.
• Or by Quantity.

• Dealing with fixed and variable time for each operation.
• Supports operating through third-party.
• Testing of the production route before executing it.

Items Planning:

• Designing a schedule and plan for the supply of each raw material based on the supplier.
• Designing a time plan based on a fixed and variable period for the supply of each raw material for each supplier.
• The possibility of dealing with more than one production route and more than one BOM for each finished product or semi-finished product depends on:

• Client.
• Client delivery place.

• Approve more than one policy for creating Production Orders:

• Batch.
• Production Order for each quantity.
• Lot for each Customer Order.

 Creating Production Orders & Planning the schedule:

• Support the limited and unlimited planning methods.
• Plan production orders based on each of the based-on Customer Orders or Sales Forecast (Sales Plan).
• Several criteria for creating production orders such as:

• Create Production Orders based on customers.

• Create Production Orders based on Customer Orders or Production Plans.
• Create Production Orders based on the dates of Customer Orders or Production Plans.
• Create Production Orders based on priorities.

• Planning according to creating groups of raw materials stores and not only one store.
• Determining the start and end date of the Production Orders according to three methods:

• JIT.
• JITO.
• Planned.

• Multiple handling for the generated Production Orders:

• Not approving the Production Order.
• Consent & approval of the Production Order.
• Amending the date of the production Order.

• Graphs to follow up the loading percentage of the production resources.
• Issuing a report on the needs of raw materials and components.
• Reservation of raw materials in favor of the Production Order.
• Automatic creation of Purchase requisitions according to the needs of Production Orders, stock balances, and goods on the road.