Understanding PeopleSoft Production Control Updates Business Process

To meet item demands and target inventory levels, PeopleSoft Supply Planning creates planned production and recommends changes to existing production for PeopleSoft Production Management for execution. Within PeopleSoft Production Management, planned production can be automatically converted into production IDs and production schedules. In addition, you can cancel or reschedule existing production at the production and operations levels. You can also make component substitutions.

After you generate a supply plan, you can transfer new and existing production information from PeopleSoft Supply Planning to Production Management. PeopleSoft Supply Planning enables you to transfer production plan information back and forth between PeopleSoft Supply Planning and Production Management.

You can manage the production control updates from PeopleSoft Supply Planning after you run the Post Updates process (PL_POST).

To process production control updates:

  1. Review the errors that occur from the Post Updates process using the Review Production Post Errors component.

    When you run the Post Updates process, PeopleSoft Supply Planning generates error messages. These error messages are generated, because a change in the production data occurred since the last time that you ran the Post Updates process, or a violation of a business rule occurred, such as an invalid calendar date.

  2. (Optional) Review and approve the recommended production control updates using the Approve Production Updates component.

    Use this component to manually approve the updates that you want to apply to PeopleSoft Production Management. You can automatically approve all of the changes during the Post Updates process.

  3. Apply the approved production control updates by initiating the Apply Planning Messages COBOL process (SFPAPLNS) using the Apply Production Updates component.

    This process generates an error log. Use this error log to view errors that occurred while applying the production control updates to PeopleSoft Production Management.

Use PeopleSoft Production Management to manage these updates from PeopleSoft Supply Planning:

  • Creation of production IDs or schedules.

  • Cancellation and reschedule of existing production IDs or schedules.

  • Reschedule of operations for existing production IDs.

  • Frozen production IDs or schedules.

  • Component substitution for a production ID.

  • Quantity change for existing production IDs.