Manufacturing planning

Schedule specific operations for Work Centers or Machine Centers in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Do you want to sequence operations related to a Work Center or Machine Center? Would you like to schedule MPS (Master Production Schedule) and MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning) to run? Do you want to monitor the availability of materials in real time?

Main benefits for the user

  • Set, in an easy way, parameters for sequencing all operations of a Work Center or Machine
  • Execute the MPS, MRP planning with Job queue so that processes happen at times when the system is not overloaded
  • Quickly calculate and monitor the material availability
  • Distribute the planning results to dedicated planning worksheets

Features

The Manufacturing planning app for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central allows you to schedule specific operations for Work Centers or Machine Centers. In addition, the app allows you to choose if you want to monitor the operations related to planned / firm planned orders or also released orders...

  • Manufacturing planning for Business Central: app features

    You can assign each operation a sequence number. The sequencing is doing by a finitely forward scheduling from the starting date-time

  • Manufacturing planning for Business Central: app features

    From the Planning Sequence you can recalculate the Material Status for all production orders of the selected operations

  • Manufacturing planning for Business Central: app features

    You can view the availability of the machine or work center, including its capacity, the allocated quantity, availability after orders and the load in percent of its total capacity

  • Manufacturing planning for Business Central: app features

    You can integrate them into your planning result, when you convert the planning suggestion into a purchase order, then the contract references are also transferred to the purchase order

  • Manufacturing planning for Business Central: app features

    You define a Planning Setup either for the planning calculation or for the split of the planning result

  • Manufacturing planning for Business Central: app features

    For each Planning Setup you must setup the fields Scheduled and a Schedule Sequence. The Schedule Sequence establishes the order in which the calculation is performed

Quick guide

Ready to go in a few steps with Manufacturing planning per Business Central:

  1. MPS and MRP planning of all items
  2. Split and distribute the planning result to dedicated planning worksheets
  3. Schedule the planning calculation from Job Queue

Prices are per customer and for 12 months

Pricing Options

The features of the Manufacturing planning app require a subscription. The subscription can be activated from Subscription control panel or directly from the notification messages that the system proposes, by clicking on the link that allows you to start the subscription wizard.

Try now Manufacturing planning, app to schedule specific operations for work centers or machine centers in Dynamics 365 Business Central