Production Plan

A Production Plan helps in production and material planning for the Items planned for manufacturing. These production items can be committed via Sales Order (to Customers) or Material Requests (internally).

Production Plan helps the user to plan production against multiple Sales Orders or the Material Requests. Also, it helps in Material Procurement planning for the raw material item, based on the quantity of finished products to be manufactured.

To access the Production Plan list, go to:

\u003e Home \u003e Manufacturing \u003e Production \u003e Production Plan

1. Prerequisites

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Before creating and using a Production Plan, it is advised that you create the following first:

• Item
• Material Request
• Sales Order
• Bill Of Materials
• Routing

2. How to Create a Production Plan

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As mentioned earlier, a Production Plan can be used for planning the manufacture of Items against Sales Orders or Material Requests.

The common steps are:

1. Go to the Production Plan list, click on New.
2. Select whether to get items from a Sales Order or a Material Request.

A Production Plan can also be created manually where you can select the Items to manufacture.

2.1 Production Against Sales Orders

1. Select option as Sales Order from the 'Get Items From' drop-down list. The system will show the filters, using that you can pull the Sales Orders for the production. You don't need to use all these filters if you have only a few Sales Orders in a particular time frame.

2. Click on Get Sales Orders to fetch sales orders based on the above filters.

3. On expanding a row in the Items to Manufacture table, you'll see an option to 'Include Exploded Items'. Ticking this includes raw materials of the sub-assembly items in the production process.

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