DESCRIPTION

Genzlinger’s Master Production Scheduling (MPS) application brings together all independent demands for product from Release/Shipment communications (EDI), Customer Order Processing, Forecasts and manual entry. It provides interactive capability for manipulating and leveling these demands and constructs a Master Production Schedule.

FEATURES

• Accepts and consolidates independent demand from Manual Forecasts, Sales Forecasts, Customer Orders and Electronic (EDI) Customer Releases.
• Allows extensive manipulation of draft master schedules through menu features such as rolling, netting, scrap factoring, and lot sizing.
• Provides Net Change analysis between two master production schedules.
• Prints the Master Production Schedule in 12 day, 4 week, 12 week and 12 month formats.
• Provides rough-cut capacity planning to evaluate feasibility of the Master Production Schedule in terms of critical materials, manpower, machines and finances.
• Provides Sales Forecasting for one and five year horizons.
• Forecasts demand using moving average, weighted moving average, and exponential smoothing with seasonal and economic trend adjustments.
• Prints Sales Forecasts in units or dollars.
• Generates a Master Production Schedule (MPS) file for use by the MRP application.
• Maintains multiple shop calendars.
• Provides long horizons for capacity and resource planning.
• The system integrates with the Genzlinger Release/Shipment Communications, Customer Order Processing, Material Requirement Planning and Inventory Management applications.

 

 

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