Material Planning
M3 Material Planning covers all types of acquisition methods.
M3 Material planning is the collective term that describes the ways and means of calculating and proposing quantities and lead times for items ordered from production, suppliers or warehouses.
Since this is time-phased, proposals are also made for replanning existing firm planned or released orders. The user is able to control all of the actions through settings such as planning method, lead time, safety lead time, upstream or downstream dampening, order quantity, calendar checks, and so on.
To achieve the best possible coordination, M3 Material Planning (MAP) covers all types of acquisition methods including M3 Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP), M3 Master Production Scheduling (MPS), M3 Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and M3 Reorder Point (ROP).
These are all integrated into a single logical component and can be run using the following approaches: Regeneration, net change MRP for parts of or the entire enterprise, continuous processing, or user-activated replanning when necessary.
In addition, comprehensive support is available for pegging any requirement on an unlimited number of levels. Several parallel simulations can be run and each can be fed back into the current material plan.
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