This course handles the administration of master production schedules and project master production schedules. More specifically, the course describes how to set up basic planning data, how to perform level 0 and level 1 master production scheduling and how to perform project master scheduling. The course also shows how to perform advanced multi-site master scheduling.
In addition, the course outlines how to create a set of requirements for manufacturing, and how the system calculates and creates planned orders in appropriate periods to satisfy a set of demands.
The estimated time to complete this course is seven hours.
The estimated time to complete the Basic course is 3 hours and 30 minutes.
The estimated time to complete the Intermediate course is 6 hours.
The estimated time to complete the Advanced course is 4 hours.
This course is designed primarily for master production schedulers, production control managers, and inventory planners.
This chapter consists of four lessons. It is recommended that you begin with the introductory lesson for master scheduling, which outlines what a master production schedule is, the goals and benefits of Master Production Scheduling, the overall workflow, and sales and operations planning with IFS Applications. You can then move on to the introductory lesson for project master scheduling.
To step through the scenario and its associated exercises, you need to have certain data set up for your site. The second and fifth lessons of this chapter present an overview of this data and show you how to copy the data to your own site.
Before starting the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge of how to work and navigate in IFS Applications.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 1.5 hours.
This chapter is designed primarily for master production schedulers, production control managers, and inventory planners.
This chapter outlines how to perform level 0 Master Scheduling. Specifically, it covers how to create master schedule sets and create family sets on your site. It also covers how to create a level 0 part; register forecasts for a level 0 part; combine, copy and reset forecast sets; calculate and schedule MS jobs for level 0 parts; review level 0 results; disaggregate level 0 forecasts; and review results in level 1.
Before starting the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge of how to work and navigate in IFS Applications and complete the lessons in the Introductory chapter.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is one hours.
This chapter is designed primarily for master production schedulers, production control managers, and inventory planners.
This chapter outlines how to perform level 1 Master Scheduling. Specifically, it covers how to calculate and schedule MS job for level 1 parts; review disaggregated results for level 1 parts, reset PTF and DTF settings, and aggregate parts and create an S&OP.
Before starting the lessons in this chapter, should have basic knowledge of how to work and navigate in IFS Applications. You also need to have completed the lessons on the Introductory chapter as well as those in the Performing Level 0 Master Scheduling chapter.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
This chapter is designed primarily for master production schedulers, production control managers, and inventory planners.
This chapter outlines how to perform project master scheduling. Specifically, it covers how to calculate and schedule project MS jobs for project MS parts and review results for level 1 parts.
Before starting the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge of how to work and navigate in IFS Applications. You also need to have completed the lessons in the introductory chapter.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
This chapter is designed primarily for master production schedulers, production control managers, and inventory planners.
This chapter outlines how to manually update the level 1 Master Schedule. Specifically, it covers how to review the MS calculations and update the master scheduled receipts for level 1 parts.
Before starting the lessons in this chapter, user should have basic knowledge of how to work and navigate in IFS Applications. You also need to have completed the lessons on the Introductory chapter as well as those in the Performing Level 1 Master Scheduling chapter.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 30 minutes.
This chapter is designed primarily for master production schedulers, production control managers, and inventory planners.
This chapter covers how to perform RRP (resource requirements planning). Specifically, it covers how to create a resource routing, perform RRP, and review RRP results.
Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge of how to work and navigate in IFS Applications. You also need to have completed the lessons on the Introductory chapter as well as those in the Performing Level 0 Master Scheduling and Performing Level 1 Master Scheduling chapters.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 30 minutes.
This chapter is designed primarily for master production schedulers, production control managers, and inventory planners.
This chapter covers how to import demand into Master Scheduling. Specifically, it covers how to import demand from IFS/Customer Scheduling and how to import demand from IFS/Demand Planning.
Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge of how to work and navigate in IFS Applications. You should also have completed the lessons in the Introductory chapter as well as those in the Performing Level 0 Master Scheduling and Performing Level 1 Master Scheduling chapters. In addition, you must have completed the Customer Scheduling and Demand Planning courses.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 30 minutes.
This chapter is designed primarily for customer service, master production schedulers, production control managers, and inventory planners.
This chapter outlines how to perform multi-site level 1 master scheduling. Specifically, it covers how master scheduling works between two sites, using distribution orders, when one site is the demanding site and the other site is the supplying site.
Before starting the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge of how to work and navigate in IFS Applications. You also need to have completed the lessons on the Introductory chapter as well as those in the Performing Level 1 Master Scheduling chapter.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 3 hours.
This chapter is designed primarily for master production schedulers, production control managers, and inventory planners.
This chapter describes the basic data you need to set up so you can perform Master Scheduling. This basic data is described in one lesson. Specifically, it covers how to create family set data, master scheduling sets, and resource routings.
Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge of how to work and navigate in IFS Applications.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is one hour.
This chapter is designed primarily for master production schedulers, production control managers, and inventory planners.