Plan Daily Production
Daily Production Planning refers to the ability to obtain a detailed view of scheduled production activities on a day-by-day basis and make necessary modifications. There are two major areas of production for which daily production planning can be particularly beneficial:
Item Availability: a daily view of production can alert the user if there are not enough raw materials on hand to handle currently scheduled production activities. Conversely, the user can be alerted to surpluses of raw materials, perhaps allowing for increased production.
Equipment Capacity: a daily view of production can alert the user if currently scheduled production activities exceed equipment capacity. If current production will leave a piece of equipment idle for a particular time, this information can be gathered as well.
Because changes made to production activities on a particular day may have a direct impact on the production activities that are scheduled for the following day, the daily production planning tools provided in Food Manufacturing & Distribution provide the ability to suggest pending changes to production, then view the way in which these changes will impact item availability and equipment capacity on subsequent days. Depending on this impact, proposed production changes can be discarded or committed.
Due to the detail provided on a day-by-day basis, daily production planning is most practical when used to review and modify production activities in the near future; having a shortage of raw materials for a production order that is scheduled two months from the present date may not be an issue if raw materials are replenished on a weekly basis. As such, daily production planning should be thought of as a supplement to the standard production scheduling tools found within the program. If a manufacturing environment's entire production planning cycle is fairly short term, it may be that daily production planning can be the sole method by which production activities are scheduled.
The following table describes a sequence of tasks, with links to the topics that describe them. These tasks are listed in the order in which they are generally performed.
| To | See |
|---|---|
| Create a production activity to better utilize available raw materials or idle production equipment. | How to: Add a New Production Order |
| Adjust an existing production activity to account for excesses and shortages in available raw materials and equipment capacities. | How to: Modify a Production Order |
| Commit the pending changes to production activities that have been made with daily production planning. | How to: Commit Production Order Changes |