This document provides instructions for using forecast data to generate a Master Production Schedule (MPS) in Oracle, launching a Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) run to calculate recommended releases, and using the Planner's Workbench to review exceptions and release planned orders and purchase requisitions. Key steps include loading a forecast into the MPS, running MRP, reviewing exceptions, and releasing planned work orders and purchase orders.
This document provides instructions for using forecast data to generate a Master Production Schedule (MPS) in Oracle, launching a Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) run to calculate recommended releases, and using the Planner's Workbench to review exceptions and release planned orders and purchase requisitions. Key steps include loading a forecast into the MPS, running MRP, reviewing exceptions, and releasing planned work orders and purchase orders.
This document provides instructions for using forecast data to generate a Master Production Schedule (MPS) in Oracle, launching a Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) run to calculate recommended releases, and using the Planner's Workbench to review exceptions and release planned orders and purchase requisitions. Key steps include loading a forecast into the MPS, running MRP, reviewing exceptions, and releasing planned work orders and purchase orders.
This document provides instructions for using forecast data to generate a Master Production Schedule (MPS) in Oracle, launching a Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) run to calculate recommended releases, and using the Planner's Workbench to review exceptions and release planned orders and purchase requisitions. Key steps include loading a forecast into the MPS, running MRP, reviewing exceptions, and releasing planned work orders and purchase orders.
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Title:
Materials Resource Planning
Prepared by: Larry Sherrod Release Date: 02/10/2008
The purpose of this document is to take you from forecasting through the Master Production Schedule, launching Material Resource Planning and then to release planned orders from your Planners Workbench. Use an existing Forecast to load your MPS. From your planning responsibility, select MPS > Load/Copy/Merge. This process is like running a report process. You should see the Parameters screen below.
Fill in the parameters as shown. You may or may not choose to overwrite. Once you have set your parameters, submit the process and make sure it completes normally.
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If the process was successful, you should be able to open the MPS and view the schedule lines as shown below. From your MPS menu select Entries. Query up your MPS.
This information should reflect what you see in your forecast. It should have the same items, schedule dates and quantities. You can modify the MPS and add or delete lines as you feel necessary. You can check your schedule in the bucketed view by pressing the BUCKETED button. You can check Sales Order Reliefs to the schedule by pressing the RELIEFS button.
Once you are satisfied with the MPS, you can use it to run you MRP. To Launch your MRP run, go to your MRP menu and select Launch. It runs as a background process just like reports. Navigate to the Parameters screen, as shown below.
Select your plan
and use the defaults as shown. Press the OK button. Submit the process. It is recommended to run the MRP process at least once a week. You should use the SCHEDULE feature to time this activity with “off” hours.
View your requests to confirm all of the MRP processes completed normally.
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You can now use planners workbench to view the recommended releases based on the plan. From your MRP menu, select Workbench.
You should see the
screen to the left. This indicates your plan name and the last snapshot date. The best place to look first is the exceptions form. Press the EXCEPTIONS button.
You are presented
with a Find screen. If you wish to see all exceptions, press the FIND button. You will see a listing of all the plan exceptions.
There can be many
plan exception types to deal with. For a complete listing and definition, go to the Oracle help and look for the section on Review Planning Information. A common exception is “items with no activity”. This means there are items in your system that have no activity for your current plan. You may or may not choose to do anything about them. They could be items you need to obsolete. To see a listing, check the box to the left of the line and press the EXCEPTION DETAILS button.
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You should see the image below.
This is a list of the
individual items with no activity.
After you have reviewed the exceptions, you need to release work orders and purchase requisitions. Go back to your main planner workbench form and press the SUPPLY button.
Set the fields as
shown in the image to the right. This will bring up only your Planned Orders and Purchase orders.
It should look like the
image below.
You can select Planned
Orders for release. Either use the check box or the Select All for Release button.
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If you select all for release, the lines will change color, as shown below.
Select ONLY the ones you
want to convert to purchase requisitions. When you have made your selections, save you work and press the RELEASE button. You will see a screen like below letting you know what the system is about do.
This will send the information to the Purchasing interface and generate Purchase Requisitions.
You can now go to your purchasing responsibility to convert the requisitions to
purchase orders.
To release work orders from the workbench, follow the same steps as above except you must change your filter options to “make” instead of “buy”. The work orders will come over as Unreleased. You will need to change their status before you begin working on them.
This covers only the basics of MRP. If you wish to exploit deeper functionality and features, you must read the documentation Oracle provides. It is also a good idea to find documentation covering the basic concepts of planning. This can be obtained at www.APICS.org.
