Auto-release Planned Orders
Instead of implementing and releasing planned orders by hand, you can enable the planning process to automatically release planned orders. During the planning run, all qualifying planned orders that fall within the release time fence will be released. Unlike manual release, you cannot modify order dates and quantities or the default implementation details.
Before the planning process can release planned orders automatically, you must:
Define an employee, associate a user name to the employee entry, and associate the employee to the application user. See Entering a New Person.
Define a planner or planning entity and associate this planner with items you want controlled by the auto-release function. See Defining Planners and Defining Items.
In addition, the planned orders must meet the following auto-release criteria:
- the new due date lies within the auto-release time fence
- the lead time is not compressed
- the orders are for standard items (will not release models, option classes, and planning items)
- the orders are for DRP planned items in a DRP plan, MPS planned items in an MPS plan, or MRP planned items in an MRP plan See: Auto-release Planned Orders.
- the release time fence option is defined as anything other than Do not auto-release, Do not release (Kanban), or Null
Auto-release of repetitive schedules is not applicable to repetitively planned items. No material availability check is performed before WIP jobs are released.
To enable the auto-release function:
2. Enter an alphanumeric name that identifies a unique material requirements.
3. Check Feedback to monitor the quantity of the planned order that has been implemented as discrete jobs, purchase orders, or purchase requisitions.
This provides the planner visibility of the status of the plan at any point in time.
4. Check Production to enable a plan to auto-release planned orders.
5. Enter an inactive on date on which to disable the plan.
As of this date, you can no longer update the plan, nor use the plan name in the planning process. You are still able to view information and run reports for disabled names.
6. Select Yes to enable the Memory-based Planning Engine. You must enable the Memory-based Planning engine to use the auto-release function.
See Also
Time Fence Control
Release Time Fence
