Schedule Management
You can monitor your master demand schedule as customer shipments occur by utilizing the MDS relief process.
You can maintain credible priorities or schedule dates and update your master production schedule either manually or automatically through the MPS relief process. You can report and implement the MPS by exception, only for those items that require attention.
Various reports and inquiries are available to give you detailed information on your master schedule status. See: Reports.
You can automatically maintain your master production schedule with the auto-reduce MPS attribute you specify for the item in the item master in Oracle Inventory. For each item, you can specify a point in time after which you no longer want the item to appear on the MPS. This point in time can be the demand time fence, the planning time fence, or the current date depending on your business practices.
You can optionally associate a demand class to a master demand schedule or master production schedule when you define the master schedule name. When you ship a sales order or create a discrete job, that sales order or discrete job relieves the master schedules that are associated with the demand class of the sales order or discrete job.
You can load a subset of the sales orders into your master schedule for a specific demand class.
See Also
Forecasting
Material Requirements Planning
Overview of Capacity Planning
