WinMAGI - Master Production Scheduling & Sales Forecasting
Module
WinMAGI Master Production Scheduling & Sales Forecasting modules provide tools planners can use to create a balanced production schedule for salable end items. Planners can use forecast, customer orders, finite or infinite capacity, shop calendars, planned downtime and more in order to develop the master schedule. The master production schedule (MPS) becomes the input for material resource planning (MRP).
WinMAGI provides three ways to effectively forecast sales:
Annual usage forecast - very simple
Flexible forecast - simple
Complete forecasting - more complex
Complete forecasting begins with an annual, company-wide sales forecast expressed in dollars, and through a series of steps, deconstructs the forecasted sales dollars into quantities of specific end items required per month or week. Different end items can use different methods for forecasting. Not everything needs to be forecasted. Demand for non-forecasted end items will come from customer orders or a reorder point based stocking level.
What’s more is that WinMAGI MPS offers a change simulation capability that can be carried into change simulation within MRP and capacity management.
WinMAGI - Master Production Scheduling & Sales Forecasting