Planning represents one of the most significant departments in a manufacturing company. It is liable for surplus stock and late purchase of material as well as delays in delivery of end-products.

The planning segment of manufacturing is organized so as to enable various approaches in planning using different methods of manufacturing. For example the following:

• mass manufacturing (series production) for specific scheduling (on a weekly, monthly, quarterly basis)
• job order production including dismantling to the last product level
• combined manufacturing consisting of assembly (planned in orders) or production of semi-products for assembly
• process manufacturing

The following are the basic requirements in planning: 

• material requirements planning
• assessing available capacities
• manufacturing scheduling

Plan module enables you to directly launch manufacturing and directly link:

• work order (individual products=individual order lines=individual plan line)
• customer order (multiple lines in work order can be merged in one order)
• plan (multiple orders can be merged into one plan).

The system used in planning can be adjusted to user requirements. The program enables you to monitor and keep records of production plans on a yearly, quarterly, monthly basis. The system as has been already mentioned is totally adjustable and provides a good approach for using business information solutions in a manufacturing company.

This topic covers planning and based on it also manufacturing scheduling