EnterpriseOneRequirements Planning 8.9 PeopleBook

September 2003

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Table of Contents

Industry Environment and Concepts for Requirements Planning 1 Project Requirements Planning (PRP) .................................................................... 7

Requirements Planning: The Competitive Advantage.....................................11

Requirements Planning Overview 13 Resource and Capacity Planning ....................................................................13 Material Planning Operations ..........................................................................13 Requirements Planning System Integration ....................................................14 Terms and Concepts for Requirements Planning ...........................................15 Tables Used by Requirements Planning .........................................................16 Menu Overview ...............................................................................................18

Resource & Capacity Planning (G33)...................................................................... 18 Material Planning (G34)........................................................................................... 19

Requirements Planning Concepts 21 Understanding Supply and Demand ...............................................................21

Inventory Management and Requirements Planning .............................................. 21 Forecast Management and Requirements Planning ............................................... 21 Sales Order Management and Requirements Planning.......................................... 21 Work Order Management and Requirements Planning .......................................... 22 Procurement and Requirements Planning............................................................... 22

Single-Facility versus Multifacility Planning.....................................................22 Single-level versus Multilevel Planning ...........................................................23 Master Production Scheduling and Material Requirements Planning .............23 What Are the Differences between MRP and MPS?.......................................27 Understanding Requirements Planning Output...............................................29

Planning Horizons.................................................................................................... 30 Quantity Types (34/QT) ........................................................................................... 30 Time Fences and the Time Series........................................................................... 31 Planning Messages ................................................................................................. 37

Understanding Parallel Processing .................................................................39

Requirements Planning Foundation Setup 42 Setting Up Supply and Demand Inclusion Rules.............................................43 Setting Up Inventory Management for Requirements Planning ......................44

What You Should Know About Item Setup.............................................................. 45

Setting Up Quantity Type Subsets ..................................................................47 Distribution Requirement Plan Quantity Type (34/DR)............................................ 47 Master Production Schedule Quantity Type (34/MS) .............................................. 48 Adjusted Values Only (MPS) (34/AS)...................................................................... 49 Unadjusted Values Only (MPS) (34/US) ................................................................. 49

Setting Up Capacity Planning..........................................................................50 Capacity Requirements Planning Display (33/CR).................................................. 50 Rough Cut Capacity Planning Display (33/RC)....................................................... 50 Resource Requirements Planning (33/RR) ............................................................. 50 Unit Types (33/UT) .................................................................................................. 50 Reviewing Work Centers ......................................................................................... 50 Determining Available Capacity............................................................................... 52 Generating Resource Profiles ................................................................................. 58

Capacity Planning Processing 61 Generating Resource Requirements Plans.....................................................62 Reviewing Resource Requirements Plans ......................................................70

Reviewing Dispatch Groups for RRP ...................................................................... 70 Reviewing Work Center Load for RRP.................................................................... 71 Reviewing Period Summaries ................................................................................. 73 Reviewing Message Detail ...................................................................................... 74

Validating Resource Requirements Plans.......................................................76

Single-Facility Planning 77 Working with Single-Facility Planning Input ....................................................77

Revising Detail Forecasts........................................................................................ 77 Reviewing Leadtime for MRP.................................................................................. 78 Reviewing Part Availability Information ................................................................... 79 Reviewing Items for Net Change............................................................................. 81

Requirements Planning Generation ................................................................84 Regenerating a Planning Schedule ......................................................................... 84 Generating a Net Change Planning Schedule ........................................................ 85

Requirements Planning Output .......................................................................106 Reviewing the Time Series...................................................................................... 106 Reviewing Planning Families................................................................................... 114 Reviewing Detail Messages .................................................................................... 116 Processing Work Order Messages.......................................................................... 124 Processing Purchase Order Messages................................................................... 125 Processing Messages Automatically ....................................................................... 129 Placing Messages on Hold ...................................................................................... 129 Clearing Messa