Planning & MRP
Will We Run Out? And What Should We Do?
Time-phased material planning that does not stop at the shortage. Every shortfall carries the revenue it threatens, the assemblies it blocks and the orders it delays — plus a recommended fix you can act on in one click.
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but what it costs and how to fix it
Shortage detection, impact analysis, finite-capacity scheduling and forecast scoring in one planning loop
Supply & Demand Netting
Five demand sources including safety stock and five supply sources including planned orders, netted period by period into a projected available balance. Any negative period is a shortage.
Revenue at Risk
Every shortage carries the value of the sales orders it threatens, so a small shortage on a high-value order can correctly outrank a large shortage on a cheap part.
Impact Chain
Trace a short part upward to the assemblies that can no longer be built, the sales orders now at risk with customer and due date, the blocked work orders, and the secondary shortages further down.
Production Scheduling
Finite-capacity and calendar-aware, forward from a start date or backward from a due date. Drag an operation and its dependents follow so the routing stays valid.
Make vs Buy
A recommendation of make, buy or either with a plain-language reason, component-by-component availability, and the cost premium of making it yourself.
Demand Forecasting
Build forecasts from history with seasonality and trend, distribute a known total across periods, or import in bulk — then score the result against what actually happened.
Planning That Ends in an Action
From a projected shortfall to a released purchase order without leaving the module.
Time-phased demand, supply and projected availability in daily or weekly buckets. Click any projected-available cell to accept, modify or dismiss the system's suggestion for that period, or add supply by hand — right in the grid.
- Daily or weekly buckets
- Adjust supply inline per period
- Shortage periods flagged in the grid
Severity by how soon it bites, from critical inside three days to low beyond two weeks — combined with the revenue exposed. The point is to work the queue in the order that protects the most money, not the largest quantity.
- Severity bands by days to impact
- Revenue at risk per shortage
- Open, resolving, resolved or accepted
The impact view walks up from the short item to the parent assemblies that cannot be built, the sales orders marked at risk with customer, quantity, due date and revenue, and the work orders now blocked — then lists the cascading shortages each of those creates.
- Parent assemblies blocked
- Sales orders at risk with revenue
- Cascading secondary shortages
Operations only land inside a work center's working hours and stay in routing sequence. Cascade rescheduling is on by default, so moving one operation moves its dependents and tells you how many shifted. Six named conflict types each come with a suggested fix.
- Forward and backward scheduling
- Resource, order and flow views
- Six conflict types with suggestions
Select shortages and generate purchase orders grouped by vendor or consolidated into one, with a full preview before anything is created. If a shortage references a blanket agreement, the new order becomes a release against that blanket at the agreed price.
- Group by vendor or consolidate
- Preview before creating
- Blanket agreement auto-matching
Generate from historical sales with seasonality and trend, or distribute a known total evenly, front-loaded, back-loaded or seasonally. Every run is a reversible batch. Then accuracy scoring grades the result and reports whether you are consistently over or under.
- Four creation methods
- Reversible generation batches
- Accuracy grading and forecast bias
Supply-Demand DashboardShortage QueueImpact AnalysisPlanning ViewProduction SchedulingCapacity & BottlenecksBatching OpportunitiesMake vs BuyMulti-PO CreatorDemand ForecastingForecast AccuracyManufacturing Cockpit
Most planning tools tell you that you are short. This one tells you which customer is affected, how much revenue is exposed, whether making it beats buying it, and then creates the purchase order as a release against your blanket agreement.
From shortage to signed order in one queue
See what you are about to run out of
Walk through supply-demand netting, impact analysis and finite-capacity scheduling against your own demand.