Master planning in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
Master planning allows companies to determine and balance the future need for raw materials and capacity to meet company goals. Master planning assesses which raw materials and capacities are currently available, and which raw materials and capacities are required to complete production. For example, what must be manufactured, purchased, transferred, or set aside as safety stock before you can complete production.
Prerequisites
- General understanding of supply chain processes.
- The ability to use Dynamics Supply Chain Management for basic processing.
- Knowledge of inventory management processes.
- Knowledge of warehouse management processes.
- Knowledge of production planning processes.
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In every industry, whether it's retail, manufacturing, distribution, services, or public sector entities, the ability to effectively anticipate and manage demand and supply for goods and services is crucial for both short-term and long-term operations. Familiarize yourself with the Master Planning feature within Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to simplify your planning process. When you use predefined criteria, this tool enables you to efficiently strategize your procurement, transfers, and manufacturing requirements for materials.
The master planning features enables the calculation of a master plan to occur outside Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and its SQL database. The master planning features also improve performance and has minimal impact on the SQL database during the planning runs. Therefore, it can be run during normal office hours and provide immediate results based on the most recent activity.
Material Requirements Planning (MRP) has become an increasingly challenging area for supply chain management due to a multitude of factors. For instance, the growing use of materials from overseas has greatly affected lead times for those materials. Furthermore, market fluctuation and an increasingly shorter lead time requested by customers has led many businesses to misjudge their stock and experience understocked situations. Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) helps alleviate these problems by enforcing buffers on various items that you can define min, max, and resupply amounts for. This module explores the benefits and applications of DDMRP.