MRP Wizard

The MRP Wizard helps you plan required quantities for complex manufacturing processes, to define new planning scenarios and to analyze the MRP results. In order that the product is manufactured by the desired time and in the required quantity, the MRP Wizard creates recommendations for the purchase and production.

To edit a scenario you need the MRP wizard authorization and editing rights stored in the scheduling.

Field

Description

Icon

Status of the current scenario:

•Green (OK) = Ready

•Blue (Question mark) = in work

•Red (Stop) = an error occurred during the computation

Scenario

ID of the plan For better overview, the display order can be changed by clicking and dragging a a line.

Description

Long description of the plan.

Last calculation

The date of the last calculation run.

Calculate automatically

The MRP is calculated automatically by the server at activation. For further information see Automatic calculation.

Status

The current status. In case a calculation is being carried out on another station, the order recommendations cannot be displayed as long as the plan is not in "OK" status.

Calculate resources

Indicates whether resource scheduling (MRP2) was activated.

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Window artikel_resourcenberechnung.psr

Field	Description
Item from/to	Include a range of items in the calculation with these two fields.
Item group	Select item group(s) to include in the calculation.
Material group	Select material group(s) to include in the calculation.
Item property	Select item properties to be displayed.
Employee	Select employee(s) to perform the calculation for.
Lead time Calculate	Activate to calculate lead time for selected entries.
Material and Resources Calculate	Activate to calculate material and resources.

Field

Description

Open

Edit the parameters of the selected MRP scenario. Opens a new window.

Add

Create a new MRP scenario.

Another window is opened with three tabs.

Planning, Detail, Warehouse.

Remove

Delete the selected MRP scenario.

Order recommendation

Show calculation results.

Note: As long the computation is running on a different work station, the results cannot be displayed.

Calculate

Execute the selected MRP scenario.

Note: As long the computation runs, no user can open the order recommendation list. If the computation was not completed, for example due to a blackout, please restart.

See Calculation.

Resources

The Resources button opens the resource requirement view for the selected scenario (MRP2).

External operations

Analysis

Display the Analysis of the last calculation.