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Planning Optimization for select manufactured items

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Business value

Improve planner efficiency at manufacturing companies by automatically applying filters to include all required supply and demand in a multilevel production structure.

Feature details

When demand changes for a produced item, it's important to update all impacted items. This feature enables planners to run filtered master planning for selected produced items, which avoids the need to run without a filter to include related items. Automatic filtering ensures that Planning Optimization has all the information required to calculate the correct result, which must include all products that have any relation to products in the entire bill of materials (BOM) structure of the planned order. Dependent child items are automatically detected and included during master planning with Planning Optimization. For example, if a single bolt from the BOM structure of product A is also used to produce product B, then all products in the BOM structures of products A and B will be included in the filter.

Planning Optimization benefits

With Planning Optimization, companies can benefit from:

  • Significantly improved performance and scalability with in-memory processing.
  • Minimized system impact on other processes made possible by running master planning as a separate service.
  • Near real-time insights into requirement changes, achieved by running master planning several times daily during office hours.

Learn more about Planning Optimization

For more information about the Planning Optimization migration process and answers to frequently asked questions, see Migration to Planning Optimization for master planning.