Use finite material scheduling in Planning Optimization
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | 
Dec 1, 2022 |
Feb 10, 2023 |
Business value
With automatic scheduling of production orders based on material availability, companies can ensure that planned production orders won’t be delayed due to material shortage.
Feature details
To ensure that production orders can be completed during the timeslot provided during production scheduling, it's important to ensure that both resource capacity and all required materials will be available at that time. Finite material scheduling respects dependencies on the availability of materials required for production. If there aren't enough components available, production will be delayed.
With finite material scheduling, you can specify the materials required to produce a product and use these as a basis for calculating the production schedule. By taking both resource capacity and the availability of materials into account, the system can schedule production according to these restrictions. With finite material scheduling, a production order can't be scheduled to start until both capacity and materials are available at the same time and in the required quantities.
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.