Master Production Schedules
What the plant commits to finish, period by period. The consumption rule is the whole point: a company that adds forecast to orders builds everything twice.
Where to find it
- Module: Manufacturing
- Group: Plan
- Section: Master Scheduling
- Screen: Master Production Schedules
Address in the console: /mfg/master-schedules
List · 11 columns · 17 fields on its form · 3 of them required · 4 actions
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule | Code | schedule_no |
| Name | Text | name |
| Item | Code | item_no |
| Bucket | Status | bucket |
| From | Date | horizon_from |
| To | Date | horizon_to |
| Consumption | Status | consumption_rule |
| Periods | Number | period_count |
| Scheduled | Number | scheduled_quantity |
| Negative | Number | negative_periods |
| Status | Status | status |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name required | Text | ||
| Item | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Product family | Text | For a plant-level schedule covering a family rather than one item. | |
| Warehouse | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Demand plan | Choice | Looked up from existing records | Where the forecast comes from, so a change to it is traceable into the schedule rather than retyped. |
| Bucket | Choice | week, day, month | |
| Horizon from required | Date | ||
| Horizon to required | Date | ||
| Demand time fence (days) | Number | Inside it the forecast is ignored and only real orders count. | |
| Planning time fence (days) | Number | Inside it the system may not move supply on its own. Without it, every re-run reschedules the job on the machine. | |
| Consumption rule | Choice | consume_forward, consume_backward, consume_both, greater_of, sum | |
| Consume forward (days) | Number | ||
| Consume backward (days) | Number | ||
| Safety stock | Number | ||
| Target days of supply | Number | ||
| Planner | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Notes | Long text |
What you can do here
Periods
Build primary
Asks for confirmation: Rebuild the grid from the forecast, the order book and existing supply? Any quantity typed over a period is replaced.
Rough-cut capacity
Asks for confirmation: Run the schedule against the bill of resources? Refused if the item has none — rough-cut needs three or four critical resources, not the whole routing.
Firm
Firm the schedule
Asks for: Reason, if firming over a negative period
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.