Daily production planning provides a detailed view of scheduled production activities on a day-by-day basis and lets you make necessary modifications. There are two major areas of production where daily production planning is particularly beneficial:
Item availability: a daily view of production can alert you if there are not enough raw materials on hand to handle currently scheduled production activities. Conversely, it can alert you to surpluses of raw materials, perhaps allowing for increased production.
Equipment capacity: a daily view of production can alert you if currently scheduled production activities exceed equipment capacity. If current production will leave a piece of equipment idle for a particular time, this information can also be gathered.
Because changes made to production activities on a particular day may directly affect the production activities scheduled for the following day, the daily production planning tools in Food Manufacturing & Distribution let you suggest pending changes to production and then view the impact of these changes on item availability and equipment capacity on subsequent days. Depending on this impact, proposed production changes can be discarded or committed.
Due to the detail provided on a day-by-day basis, daily production planning is most practical when reviewing and modifying production activities in the near future. A shortage of raw materials for a production order scheduled two months away may not be an issue if raw materials are replenished weekly. Daily production planning should therefore be thought of as a supplement to the standard production scheduling tools in the program. If a manufacturing environment's entire production planning cycle is fairly short-term, daily production planning may be the sole method by which production activities are scheduled.
The following table describes a sequence of activities, with links to the topics that describe them. These activities are listed in the order in which they are generally performed.
To | See |
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Create a production activity to better utilise available raw materials or idle production equipment. | |
Adjust an existing production activity to account for excesses and shortages in available raw materials and equipment capacities. | |
Commit the pending changes to production activities made with daily production planning. |