Interactive Planning 

Use

Interactive planning is a single-level simulative planning. It enables you to check the planning result particularly carefully and to carry out fine tuning. It is particularly suitable for materials for which a thorough check is necessary, and above all for master schedule items (see also Master Production Scheduling ).

Features

In interactive planning the system first of all displays the stock/requirements list, but does not plan it directly. From this stock/requirements list you can trigger the planning and simulation functions manually.

With interactive planning you have the following possibilities:

  • You can enter procurement proposals for materials procured in-house or externally.
  • You can change or reschedule procurement proposals entered in the planning run.
  • After each change you can carry out a rescheduling check and the planning (net and lot-size calculation).

All the changes are simulative first of all and are only written to the database after saving.

Activities

  1. Starting from the MPS node choose Master schedule items → Single-item, interactive or from the MRP node choose Planning → Single-item, interactive.

This takes you to the initial screen for interactive planning.

  1. Enter the data required, as described in Single-Item, Single-Level Planning .

The stock/requirements list display appears. The system has not yet carried out the planning.

  1. Choose .

The planning is carried out and the system takes you to the planning result. This planning result only exists in the main memory and is not saved on the database.

  1. Deal with the planning result as desired.

For more information, see Working with the Planning Result .

With you can also check the rescheduling.

  1. Run the planning again with .
  2. Repeat steps 4 and 5 as often as necessary.
  3. When you are satisfied with the planning result, save your data.

The planning result is saved to the database.