38 Validate Material Requirements Plans

This chapter contains these topics:

38.1 Validating Material Requirements Plans

After you generate the material requirements plan, you must validate it to ensure that you have sufficient work center capacity. Use Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) to determine whether the material plan can be executed with the resources that are available.

You also use CRP to:

  • Analyze all active work centers

  • Identify the pacing resource for work centers, which is either labor or machine, depending on which one would increase the work centers' capacity

  • Calculate the rated capacity for work centers

  • Calculate the MRP load for work centers

In the JD Edwards World software, the same batch program generates capacity planning information for both CRP and Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP). You can vary the settings in the processing options to accommodate the different requirements for CRP.

The primary differences between CRP and RCCP are:

  • CRP analyzes all active work centers instead of only the critical work centers.

  • CRP offers more alternatives to level an overloaded time frame.

The system uses the following inputs to CRP:

  • Firm MRP work orders and routing instructions

  • Planned MRP work orders and routings

  • Service parts' forecast

  • Service parts' sales orders

  • Inter-plant demands

The system generates the following outputs from CRP:

  • Over-capacity and under-capacity messages

  • Work center load

  • Work center load graph

  • Period summary

Validating the material requirements plan consists of the following tasks:

  • Generating Capacity Requirements Plans

  • Reviewing Capacity Requirements Plans

The programs that you use to validate the material planning schedule are the same programs that you use to validate the master schedule for DRP, MPS, and RCCP.

38.1.1 What You Should Know About

Topic Description
Synchronizing the MRP and CRP systems CRP follows the same level of operational planning as MRP. You should synchronize the following items for both MRP and CRP:
  • The planning horizon

  • The work order document types and statuses in the supply/demand inclusion rules


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38.2 Generating Capacity Requirements Plans

Navigation

From Resource & Capacity Planning (G33), choose Periodic Capacity Requirement

From Periodic Resource/Capacity Planning (G3321), choose Capacity Requirements Plan

Use the Capacity Requirements Plan program to compare prospective MRP resource requirements to the capacity available in work centers. CRP indicates if you should revise the material requirements plan to create feasible work loads or improve use of limited resources.

38.2.1 Before You Begin

38.3 Reviewing Capacity Requirements Plans

When you generate a capacity requirements plan, the system creates a time series that shows the load during each planning period for a work center. You can view the time series as a spreadsheet or as a graphical display. If you have organized several work centers as a dispatch group according to common functions, similar operations, or steps in routing, you can view the group to see how capacity affects all of the work centers in the group.

You can review summaries of each period to determine the load that is placed on a work center by each item or order. You can also review messages for each work center and delete, clear, or hold messages. If the system encounters over- or under-capacity conditions, you can review the plan and identify the periods or work centers in which the conditions occur. It might be necessary to adjust the forecast or capacity and generate CRP again.

Reviewing the capacity requirements plan includes the same programs used to review the resource requirements plan.

Complete the following tasks:

  • Review dispatch groups for capacity requirements planning

  • Review work center load for capacity requirements planning

  • Review period summaries for capacity requirements planning

  • Review MRP work schedules on the dispatch list

  • Review MRP rate schedule and work order loads

  • Validate capacity requirements plan

38.3.1 Reviewing Dispatch Groups for Capacity Requirements Planning

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From Resource & Capacity Planning (G33), choose Daily Capacity Requirements

From Daily Capacity Requirements Planning (G3313), choose Review Dispatch Group

If you have several work centers that are organized as a dispatch group, you can view the group to determine how capacity affects all of the work centers in the group. Dispatch groups enable you to organize work centers according to common functions, similar operations, or routing steps.

When you review dispatch groups, you can also review messages about all the work centers in the group and use that information to redistribute the load within the group.

When you review dispatch groups for CRP you use the same program as when you review dispatch groups for Resource Requirements Planning. You can vary the settings in the processing options to accommodate the different requirements for CRP.

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38.3.2 Reviewing Work Center Load for Capacity Requirements Planning

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From Resource & Capacity Planning (G33), choose Daily Capacity Requirements

From Daily Capacity Requirements Planning (G3313), choose Review Work Center Load

You can review the capacity load at each work center. Use this information to determine whether to adjust capacity or the forecast. You can view the time series as a spreadsheet or as a graphical display. The spreadsheet provides a numerical breakdown, by planning period, of the load placed on a work center.

The bar graph provides the same information as Review Work Center Load. The graph uses time series information from Resource Requirements Load to generate the comparison. The system displays the capacity load at the work center for each planning period based on several calculations.

Review Work Center Load for CRP uses the same program as Review Work Center Load for Resource Requirements Planning. You can vary the settings in the processing options to accommodate the different requirements for CRP.

38.3.2.1 Before You Begin

  • Verify that your resource units and capacity requirements plan are current.

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38.3.3 Reviewing Period Summaries for Capacity Requirements Planning

Navigation

From Resource & Capacity Planning (G33), choose Periodic Capacity Requirements

From Periodic Resource and Capacity Planning (G3321), choose Period Summary report

In addition to reviewing the capacity load of a work center, you can also evaluate the load placed on a work center by item. You can review period summaries either online or through a printed report. You can review:

  • The items that are scheduled for a work center

  • The number of units of an item that make up the load

  • The percent of the total load on the work center that is for a specific item's forecast

You use this information to determine whether to adjust the forecast or the capacity at the work center.

When you review period summaries for CRP you use the same program as when you review period summaries for Resource Requirements Planning. You can vary the settings in the processing options to accommodate the different requirements for CRP.

To evaluate the load placed on a work center by item, you can review the Period Summary Report.

3352 JD Edwards World Page - 2 Date - 5/31/17 Business Unit. . 200-204 Final Assembly/Inspection Efficiency . . . 80.00 Prime Load Code. B Dispatch Group . 200-200 Assembly Department Utilization. . . 100.00 Machine plus Setup H Unit of Measure. HR Hour Item Order Number Item Description Per. End Units UM Percen Number Ty Requirement Type -------------------- ------------------------------ -------- --------------- -- ------ -------- -- ---------------------------- 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/02/17 443 HR 97.15 2399 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List 1261 Multivitamin Tablets 01/02/17 7 HR 1.54 133760 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List 1261 Multivitamin Tablets 01/02/17 7 HR 1.54 133823 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List ----------------------- -------- --------------- -- Total for Period Ending 01/02/17 457 HR 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/09/17 654 HR 55.05 2428 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/09/17 531 HR 44.70 2410 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/09/17 3 HR .25 2444 WO Real (firm) Work Orders 333 OAK SHELF UNIT 01/09/17 1 HR .08 2372 WO Real (firm) Work Orders ----------------------- -------- --------------- -- Total for Period Ending 01/09/17 1189 HR 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/16/17 4205 HR 94.79 2428 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/16/17 223 HR 5.03 2452 WO Real (firm) Work Orders 12706 Vitamin A 01/16/17 3 HR .07 WP Planning Work Orders 12706 Vitamin A 01/16/17 3 HR .07 WP Planning Work Orders 12706 Vitamin A 01/16/17 2 HR .05 WP Planning Work Orders 12706 Vitamin A 01/16/17 1 HR .02 WP Planning Work Orders 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/16/17 HR 2444 WO Real (firm) Work Orders ----------------------- -------- --------------- -- Total for Period Ending 01/16/17 4437 HR 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/23/17 1059 HR 65.65 2479 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/23/17 555 HR 34.41 2452 WO Real (firm) Work Orders ----------------------- -------- --------------- -- Total for Period Ending 01/23/17 1614 HR 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/30/17 531 HR 93.82 2495 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/30/17 9 HR 1.59 123545 WO Real (firm) Work Orders FORKLIFT Forklift 01/30/17 6 HR 1.06 3615 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/30/17 3 HR .53 133920 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List 12706 Vitamin A 01/30/17 3 HR .53 WP Planning Work Orders 12706 Vitamin A 01/30/17 3 HR .53 WP Planning Work Orders 12781 Minerals, complex 01/30/17 3 HR .53 WP Planning Work Orders 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 01/30/17 3 HR .53 2508 WO Real (firm) Work Orders 12706 Vitamin A 01/30/17 2 HR .35 WP Planning Work Orders 12781 Minerals, complex 01/30/17 2 HR .35 WP Planning Work Orders 12706 Vitamin A 01/30/17 1 HR .18 WP Planning Work Orders 12781 Minerals, complex 01/30/17 1 HR .18 WP Planning Work Orders 12781 Minerals, complex 01/30/17 1 HR .18 WP Planning Work Orders ----------------------- -------- --------------- -- Total for Period Ending 01/30/17 568 HR 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 02/06/17 487 HR 60.65 2516 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 02/06/17 310 HR 38.61 123537 WO Real (firm) Work Orders 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 02/06/17 3 HR .37 2524 WO Real (firm) Work Orders 5120 Oak Desk With Chair 02/06/17 2 HR .25 123545 WO Real (firm) Work Orders 333 OAK SHELF UNIT 02/06/17 1 HR .12 141719 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List 333 OAK SHELF UNIT 02/06/17 1 HR .12 141735 FO Firm Work Order W/Parts List

38.3.3.1 Processing Options

See Section 53.8, "Period Summary (P3312)."

38.3.4 Reviewing MRP Work Schedules on the Dispatch List

Navigation

From Resource & Capacity Planning (G33), choose Daily Capacity Requirements

From Daily Capacity Requirements Planning (G3313), choose Dispatch List

Use the Dispatch List to locate and update work center scheduling information. This workbench environment serves as a starting point for work center scheduling and the release of work to the floor. Use this program to:

  • Access work order information, such as the header and parts list

  • Display work order information, such as work center, remaining labor, machine hours, and setup hours

  • Sort work orders by start date, requested date, or status code operation

  • Change the work order status code, start date, or requested date

The Dispatch List for MRP uses the same program as the Dispatch List for DRP/MPS. You can vary the settings in the processing options to accommodate the different requirements for MRP.

38.3.4.1 What You Should Know About

Topic Description
Leveling an overloaded time frame If a work center is overloaded, you might consider the following alternatives to distribute material and labor requirements to make the work center load as even as possible:
  • Offering Overtime

  • Changing higher-level demand level by level

  • Alternating routings

  • Adding shifts

  • Bringing in resources from other work centers

  • Outsourcing


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38.3.5 Reviewing MRP Rate Schedule and Work Order Loads

Navigation

From Resource & Capacity Planning (G33), choose Daily Capacity Requirements

From Daily Capacity Requirements Planning (G3313), choose Schedule Review

Use Schedule Review to review the rate schedule load and the work order load for a work center for a day, week, or month. You can also select a specific date range to view the load for the work center. If you need to adjust the scheduled load at the work center, you can access several different forms to make adjustments.

Schedule Review is used primarily for rate based items and is an alternative for viewing load on a work center. A processing option allows you to include work order generated loads before or after rate loads.

When you review schedules for MRP you use the same program as when you review schedules for DRP and MPS. You can vary the settings in the processing options to accommodate the different requirements for MRP.

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38.3.6 Validating Capacity Requirements Plans

Validating the capacity requirements plan consists of identifying the overloaded work centers, making adjustments in forecast or resources, and generating the plan again to see if the adjustments you have made have evenly distributed the loads on the work centers.

To validate a capacity requirements plan

  1. Complete the steps for reviewing the requirements plan.

    See Section 38.3, "Reviewing Capacity Requirements Plans."

  2. Revise the forecast.

    See Revising a Summary of Forecast in the JD Edwards World Forecasting Guide.

  3. Complete the steps for generating the requirements plan.

    See Section 38.2, "Generating Capacity Requirements Plans."

  4. Complete the steps for reviewing the revised requirements plan.

    See Section 38.3, "Reviewing Capacity Requirements Plans."

  5. Repeat the steps until all loads at each work center are appropriate.