Material Planning

3 Recorded Sessions
$395

Objective: Master the fundamentals of material requirements and recommended reorder for better inventory management and production planning. Material Planning focuses on the industry’s best business practices depending on different availability and production scenarios as well as how to interpret results according to each.

Results: Improve purchasing, reduce stock quantities, and better determine the time to launch production launch based on material availability from sales order to purchasing to production release.

Session 1: Fundamentals of the MRP Feature

Duration: 2 hours

Type: Recorded

Objective: Master the terminology, the interface, and calculation method to run material planning from the Work Order Management, the Production Dashboard as well as the Recommended Reorder modules.

Results: Gather essential information on the availability context provided by the material requirement planning feature for better procurement and production decision-making.

Designed for: Purchasing manager, purchaser, inventory manager, producton planner, production manager.

Session 2: Better Production Management with the MRP Feature

Duration: 2 hours

Type: Recorded

Objective: Understand and use material requirement planning calculations and results in different scenarios from sales order to purchasing to production; use simulated jobs to determine what impact priority changes can have on production and deliveries.

Results: Better manage production by knowing when items will be available considering their requirement on other jobs; avoid downtime with agile procurement and production planning.

Designed for: Purchasing manager, purchaser, inventory manager, producton planner, production manager.

Session 3: Industry's Best Practice with the MRP Feature

Duration: 2 hours

Type: Recorded

Objective: Analyze, apply, and discuss the industry's best practices in different scenarios using the Sales Order, Customer Dashboard, Production Schedule Management, and the Task Scheduling functions of the Production Dashboard and the Shop Floor modules.

Result: Recognize what the best decision-making processes are based on common scenarios to improve production planning and execution while improving the procurement process and keeping inventories low without affecting material accessibility.

Designed for: Purchasing manager, purchaser, inventory manager, producton planner, production manager.