'Amin Taheri' Category
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Mar312009
Handling multi-level bills of material (BOMs)
It’s essential for an Advanced Planning and Scheduling software to provide flexible and powerful tools for handling multi-level BOMs. After all, this is where scheduling gets complicated and even though MRP systems do a good job letting planners know what material is needed, they fail to take into account important capacity constraints. Sometimes this shortcoming [...]
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Mar202009
Scheduling Planned Order
Generation and maintenance of planned orders are an important part of the material planning process and they should be incorporated into the scheduler to provide the most realistic schedule. Below are a few notes I took away from a recent implementation.
For starters, planned orders which are not firmed up can change very frequently, so you [...]