Aggregating Production Plan Measures

You can adjust the production plans for end assembly items with interactive analysis of critical material and resource requirements.

When you open the production plan, it retrieves measure data from the connected supply plan for the selected segment of end assembly items. For example, Total Demand, Planned Orders, On Hand and Scheduled Receipts. It also retrieves their components and resources from bills of resources. The multi-level bills of resources for those assembly items are used to retrieve additional measure data such as On Hand and Scheduled Receipts for components and Resource Availability for resources from the supply plan and calculate the start-state requirements. These calculations consider both the Lead Time Offset in Days in the bills of resources and working days for organization-specific calendars, if defined. As you adjust the production plan for finished goods, multi-level net requirements are recalculated. You can quickly review both component use-up and resource requirements.

When you perform the interactive plan analysis, you need to decide which finished goods to produce. One consideration is to base the amount of finished goods production on leveling the days of supply across finished goods. For example, Days of Cover might be too low or too high depending on the selected finished good segment being analyzed.

Edit Measure Data

You can edit the Planned Orders and Total Demand measures for end assembly items in an aggregate production plan.

For example, you can simulate changes in demand such as promotions by using the Total Demand measure. No measure edits can be made for component items and resource requirements.

View Component Requirements

You can focus your analysis on how adjusting the production plans impacts the component item requirements.

Click Show Components to view the shared components that are used across the assembly items.

You can choose which finished goods to produce based on the consumption of work-in-process and scheduled receipts at upstream production stages. For example, net new requirements of Planned Orders for a subassembly or a component might be problematic if the goal is to use up the planned supplies within manufacturing or purchasing lead times.

View Resource Requirements

You can focus your analysis on how adjusting the production plans impacts the resource requirements.

Click Show Resources to review the utilization of your key resources associated with the produced items through bills of resources.

You can base the amount of finished goods production on setting batches that are well-sized. For example, if a complete shift is 8 hours, then you might adjust production so that resource hours are a multiple of that shift size.