Production planner
Description
A screen to allow manual scheduling of work orders. The system will automatically schedule work orders based on required date, but taking now account of available capacity. Use this extension to schedule production work orders to the days or weeks you require, at the same time having visual display of available capacity and material availability.
Benefits
1. Allows for finer control of manufacturing.
2. Can control location of a work order between different cells, possibly at a subcontractor’s location.
3. Can use the production planner tool to schedule work orders between cells and so control loading.
4. Barcodes on the work order traveler can be used to progress work orders along their routes.
Getting Started
1. License this extension from the licensing wizard in the Admin main menu.
2. The production planner screen is available from the Production menu, Scheduling dashboard
3. To utilise the capacity grid, enter a “Rough cut loading” value in the Item card, technical tab for each item