Perform Master Planning

Before a detailed executable plan ( see MRP) is in place, a number of initial, high-level information must be established through master planning. Master planning considers all independent demand, including forecasts. Master planning also considers resource availability and the final-assembly production schedule, that is expected production orders for demanded end items.

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the Calculate MPS option (Master Production Schedule) is the system expression of the above master planning activities.

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
Learn how the planning system can be used to detect and prioritize demand and suggest a consolidated balanced supply plan for MPS or MRP.	About Planning Functionality
Create and manage expected demand presented by sales forecasts.	How to: Create a Forecast
Run the planning worksheet with the MPS option to automatically create a high-level supply plan based on actual demand and the production forecast.	How to: Run MPS and MRP
Use the Order Planning window to manually plan for sales or production demand one production BOM level at a time.	How to: Plan for New Demand
Create one-to-one production orders automatically from a sales order to cover the exact demand of that sales order line.	How to: Create Production Orders from Sales Orders
Create a project production order directly from a multiline sales order representing a production project.	How to: Plan Project Orders
Create production orders manually either to build to stock or in response to known sales demand for produced items.	How to: Create Production Order Headers
Initiate or update a production order as rough-scheduled operations in the master production schedule.	How to: Refresh Production Orders

See Also

Concepts

Schedule Production Activities
Execute Production

Other Resources

Work With Data