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Each time you implement a portion of your master production schedule as a discrete job or a purchase requisition, you are creating actual supply. To avoid overstating supply, you need to relieve your planned supply by the quantity you have implemented as actual supply.

For discrete assemblies, total supply is considered by the planning process to be the sum of your master production schedules plus the scheduled receipts defined in Oracle Work in Process and Purchasing. With discrete planning, there are two versions of supply that must be kept in balance to avoid overstatement of supply.

For repetitive assemblies, however, master production schedules are not summed with current work in process repetitive schedules. With repetitive planning, these two versions of supply are compared and contrasted, and represent two alternative statements of supply rather than two components that are summed together.

Therefore, with repetitive planning, there is only one version of supply and therefore no need to keep two complementing versions in balance. For this reason, there is no production relief for repetitive master production schedules.