Planning Bills for Production Controlled Items
After setting up a planning bill, you can generate a planning bill forecast to help you plan configurations for end products. The MRP/MPS Requirements Planning program (R3482) reads the detail forecast for the selected parent planning bill items and expands it to create a forecast for the planning bill components for the same time periods.
You can use a planning bill to configure a hypothetical average parent item that is not manufactured but represents the components that are needed to satisfy demand for all the combinations of options and features that you expect to sell.
Use planning bills during master scheduling or material planning. You can forecast with a planning bill to determine component demand within Master Production Schedule (MPS), Material Requirements Planning (MRP), and Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Requirements Planning system.