The master production planning process translates a business plan into a dynamic and comprehensive product manufacturing Plane. Honeycomb®ERP Master Production Planning (MPP) helps your management team balance and integrate the needs of marketing, manufacturing and finance with those of your customers.
Powerful Scheduling Tools
Master Planning requires ongoing analysis, measurement and adjustment to achieve revenue goals and to allocate material and resources profitably. MPP gives you a set of powerful tools for resource planning and planning, analysis and performance measurement.
Planner's Workbench
A Planner's Workbench provides the means for consolidating all planning and scheduling functions onto one easy-to-use screen. The workbench gives you immediate access to information in all areas necessary for successful planning/scheduling, including sales demand, committed production and both purchased and planned supply. This gives planners, analysts and program managers the ability to react quickly and easily to any exceptions that may occur.
Product Recipes
Our software help you define standard production procedures and product recipes for each product this in turns help you to improve productivity and product quality. The keeps track of material, parts, process and tools used for each of your products. It also record production weight, dimensions, technical details, product images and catalog cross referencing. The system also allows you create product families to manage the recipes of identical products with ease.
Instant Available-to-Promise Information
Your customer has an emergency requirement for an item that is in critical demand. Can you make the shipment? Our on line Available-To-Promise (ATP) feature allows you to investigate the current product availability instantly. You will always have up-to-the-minute item information on hand to make critical delivery commitments.
Master Scheduling
- Planning workbench
- Concurrent MPP planning views
- Master Plan items at any level
- Computer planned orders
- Selectable Computer-Planned Orders (CPO) conversions
- Generation of purchase requisitions and purchase orders
- Creation of manufacturing orders
- Activity planned down to each day
- Generation of contract buy and make releases
On-Screen Exception Planning
- Paperless analyst review of suggested actions by item
Planning Bill of Materials
- Parent item by model, product, or family group
- Support of revision control
Firm Planned Orders
- By location within operating unit
- For multiple products with Planed deliveries
- Option to convert to manufacturing orders
- Support for full attributes of manufacturing work orders