Requirements Planning

Objective

To create realistic purchasing and production schedules, optimize stock holdings and identify capacity constraints in a multi-site, multi-warehouse environment.

The Value of SYSPRO Requirements Planning

• Assists with the planning of materials and production capacity required to meet demand
• Identifies levels of usage of critical resources for rough-cut capacity planning
• Allows for the easy creation of build schedules from Master Production Schedule (MPS) suggestions and shop floor
• Suggests purchasing, production and transfer schedule to satisfy demand
• Powerful, on-screen reviews enable the creation and amending of purchase orders and jobs based on suggestions
• “Snapshot” function allows the testing of plans before updating the live system
• Identifies potential over-supply
• Identifies average queue times
• Preview of reports to screen and e-mail capabilities

Matching SYSPRO to Your Business

• Calculates material and capacity requirements under an infinite or finite capacity assumption
• Creates actual purchase orders or requisitions from suggestions
• Creates actual work orders from suggestions
• Creates supply chain transfers from suggestions for transfers between warehouses
• Suggests changes to existing purchase orders and jobs based on changes in demand
• Provides detailed pegging information in queries and reports
• The Gross Requirements rule is defined per item
• Allows user-defined planning frequencies, lead times and planning horizons for time fence indicators
• Provides a seamless link to the Advanced Scheduler
• Has MRP query with pegging
• The capacity load is viewed in a bar chart or report form
• Quickly identifies overloaded work centers
• Gives critical resource planning queries
• Provides bucketless planning that can be viewed and reported in any time period

Audit Trails and Reporting

• Comprehensive reports include Capacity Loading, Material Requirements, Suggested Work Orders, Suggested Purchase Orders, Pegging and Resource Requirements
• Action Reports include: Build Schedule, Job, Purchase Order, Sales Order, Forecast, Safety Stock and Capacity
• Calculates “projected available and available to promise”
• Provides review of late supplies

Integration

• Integrates with the Sales Orders & Invoicing, Quotations & Estimating, Inventory Control, Work in Progress, Bill of Materials and Purchase Order modules
• E-mail reports with the Office Automation module
• Requirements Planning requires the Inventory Control module