Master Production Scheduling (MPS) Module in ERP Software is defined as an anticipated build schedule for manufacturing end items or product options by quantity per planning period. It represents what the company plans to produce, expressed in specific configurations, quantities and dates.
Sales Operations Planning (S&OP) process authorizes MPS module various products that should be translated into the MPS. Thus, MPS is a listing of the end items (products) or major sub-assemblies (standard modules) which are to be produced in known quantity and when they should be ready for ship meant or further value addition.
MPS is a logical representation of information for decision-making. It is what the firm or plant expects to product in the short run. Each individual MPS has a supporting BOM or Formula defining the components needed to produce the planned quantities of the end item. Thus, MPS becomes the input to MRP.
MPS module in ERP provides the intelligence to interpret the signals it gets from sales and forecast to think of alternative means of satisfying customer demands, and to make adjustments in capacity, inventories and so forth, and allow the company to serve the customer without imbalance between supply and demand.
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Here are the objectives of the eresource ERP MPS module:
- Development data (MPS) to give detailed planning (MRP II)
- Provide devices to reconcile customers’ desires with plant, material and vendor capabilities.
- Furnish means to make reliable delivery promises and to evaluate the effects of schedule changes.
- Coordinate plans and actions of all organisational functions and measure their performance.
- Provide management with the means to authorise and control all resources needed to support integrated plans.
- Schedule production orders and purchase orders for MPS items.
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To serve as a basis for planning material requirements, production of components, order priorities, and short-term capacity requirements. The function relates to the ‘firm’ period of the MPS, which is usually equal to the sum of production lead-times from the release of the purchase requisition to the completion of the MPS level items. To serve as a basis for estimating long-term demands on company resources such as people, plant and equipment, warehousing and capital.
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