Capacity Planning - Exact MAX Manufacturing Software Review

Exact MAX - Capacity Planning

Module

Capacity Planning balances the amount of work that can be performed in a work center with the demand that needs to be produced. Capacity Planning works in conjunction with MRP to help plan and schedule production so materials are purchased not only when they are needed but also when they can be assembled. Capacity planning allows individual work centers to have a pre-defined amount of work that can be performed and then automatically load those work centers with demand that consume the work center capacity.

Warnings are triggered when demand exceeds capacity. Orders can be:

Automatically rescheduled
Manually rescheduled using "drag and drop" to alternate or sub-contract work centers

Work center capacity can be expanded by adding more production time or an additional shift. After the scheduler has balanced capacity with demand at each work center the system will update those changes so they are reflected across the enterprise.