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Manufacturing Plan

Openbravo's manufacturing plan consists in creating work requirements and material requirements based on product demand. This process explodes all the product tree so all related products are planned. The source of material demand can be sales orders and sales forecasts. During the planning process it also takes into account current stock, minimum stocks, unreceived purchase orders and open work requirements.

When processing the plan, the products to be planned can be selected using several filters:

• Product
• Product category: all products in the category
• Planner: all the products associated with the planner
• Customer: all the products purchased by the customers
• Partner group: all the products purchased by the customers of the group.

Please notice that this filter is only used at the beginning of the process but product selection grows as the product tree is exploded.
For example, in the following image, all the products will be planned when at least one of them fulfills the filter. When product C is planned it is necessary to plan the demand of its intermediate product F. The demand for F is driven by C but also by product B, which is then also planned. Similarly, to plan F it is necessary to also plan the raw materials product I and product J.
Continuing with this explosion process, we see that all the products in the tree need to be planned.

When the product tree is exploded, the planning process generates proposal lines that are linked to each other with a parent-child relationship.
Every product demand has its own work requirement proposal or material requirement proposal. Each work requirement proposal has different child lines, the main one is to manufacture the correspondent material requirement, and the children are for the products that are used and that might be created in the work requirement.

After the Manufacturing Planning process, it is possible to manually adjust the work requirement or material requirement recommended by MRP by editing quantities and dates.
When editing a work requirement, you only need to change the main line; you can then recalculate the dates and quantities of all the children lines by pressing the Recalculate button.

To put the manufacturing plan into execution, it is necessary to create the work requirement and material requirements from all the proposals using the correspondent processes.
The created Work Requirements only have the header so it is necessary to process it to create the operations and products. This is to allow a final review before initiating production.