Turn your order book into a factory plan.
Production planning connects sales orders with batches, capacity and production orders. Keep track as work is allocated.
Plan across sales orders and keep every order connected
A sales order records your agreement with your customer. The factory also needs to group work into production batches and allocate it to suit its processes. Planning connects these two perspectives.
An order line can be split across production orders. See both the quantities already allocated and the work still waiting for a place in the plan. Each allocation keeps its connection to the original order.
Distinguish an estimate from reserved capacity
A delivery estimate helps the sales conversation. A reservation is a different commitment. Tomstok’s production planning distinguishes an estimate, a booked batch reservation and a fixed production-order basis.
Sales and production can see how firm a plan is. Reallocations retain a history, helping you follow changes in batch assignment and understand how an order reached its current place in the plan.
- Estimate
A provisional basis for the sales conversation.
- Booked batch
Allocation against production capacity.
- Production order
A fixed basis for the planned work.
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Let your factory define the constraints
Work centres, locations and factories are described in your own data. Capacity can relate to the work actually performed: hours at a machining centre or area on a paint line, for example.
The capacity and delivery model is worked out with your production team. The aim is a plan that reflects your factory’s processes and gives sales a useful basis for discussing delivery.
Give each production order its own basis
Once work is allocated, bills of materials and cutting lists are tied to each production order. Follow the parts and operations belonging to the selected production scope.
Planning uses the shared product model. It connects with machine data, packing and dispatch, while MES follows actual execution.
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