Overview of Two-Level Master Scheduling
Many companies operate in configure-to-order manufacturing environments characterized by many different product configurations, each made from combinations of a few key subassemblies. Competitive pressures often demand that customer delivery lead times are shorter than manufacturing lead times in these environments. This forces companies to start building products before customers place sales orders for specific configurations. One solution to this problem is to master schedule and build key subassemblies only, based on anticipated demand, and to assemble specific configurations only after receiving customer orders.
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning lets you use this approach, known as two-level master scheduling, to forecast and master schedule products and key subassemblies in configure-to-order manufacturing environments.
You can define multilevel planning and model bills to represent product families and products with options, and to maintain planning percents that represent estimates of anticipated product and option mixes.
You can forecast any item, anywhere on your bills of material, including planning items, models, option classes, options, and mandatory components. You can also define a configuration as a standard item and forecast it as you would any other standard item.
You can explode forecasts for planning items, models, and option classes to selected components using the components, usages, and planning percents defined on your planning, model, and option class bills. You can associate alternate bills of material to multiple forecasts for the same item and explode the same forecast using different components, usages, and planning percents. You can modify, re-explode, and re-consume forecasts for planning items, models, and option classes.
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning automatically consumes forecasts for configurations, models, option classes, options, and mandatory components as you place sales order demand for configurations.
You can master schedule any planned item, anywhere on your bills of material, including models, option classes, options, and mandatory components. You can also define a configuration as a standard item and master schedule it as you would any other standard item.
Production Relief
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning automatically relieves master production schedules for configurations, models, and option classes when you create final assembly orders for configurations. Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning automatically relieves master production schedules for options and mandatory components as you create work orders to build them.
Shipment Relief
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning automatically relieves master demand schedules for configurations, models, option classes, options, and selected mandatory components as you ship sales orders for configurations.
Rough Cut Capacity Planning
You can use rough cut capacity planning to validate your master schedules for configurations, models, option classes, and options against key resource constraints, using bills of resources.
See Also
Overview of Configure to Order
Overview of Forecasting
Overview of Master Scheduling
