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What Is a Department in Manufacturing Scheduling?
A department is an organizational grouping of work centers, such as Machining or Assembly, optionally representing a plant location. Here is the department concept explained.
What Is a Gantt Baseline in Production Scheduling?
A Gantt baseline is a saved snapshot of the Gantt chart at a reference date, used to compare the current plan and actuals against what was originally promised. Here it is explained.
What Is a Monthly Capacity Override in Scheduling?
A monthly capacity override replaces the shift-formula capacity of a work center across a date range, with lower priority than a daily override. Here is how it works.
What Is a Punch Adjustment in Shop Floor Tracking?
A punch adjustment is a supervisor-authored correction to a production punch, carrying the old value, the new value, a reason, and the adjuster's name. Here is how it works.
What Is a Quote Status in Manufacturing Quoting?
A quote status is the lifecycle stage of a customer quote, from Draft through Submitted, Approved, and finally Converted into a manufacturing order. Here is the quote lifecycle explained.
What Is a Sales Order Status in Production Planning?
A sales order status is the lifecycle stage of a customer order, from Draft through Confirmed, Shipped, and Closed. Confirmed lines count as firm demand for planning. Here it is explained.
What Is a Work Center Shift in Scheduling?
A work center shift assigns a specific shift, optionally with override hours, to a specific work center, letting one machine's hours differ from the global default. Here it is explained.
What Is a Work Center Type in Manufacturing Scheduling?
A work center type classifies what a resource does, such as Production, Assembly, Quality, Shipping, or Maintenance. Here is how the work center type is used and what it means.
What Is an Inventory Receipt Transaction?
An inventory receipt is a positive movement posted to the ledger when goods are received or a manufacturing order completes, raising the on-hand balance. Here it is explained.
What Is Forward Netting in Inventory Planning?
Forward netting projects supply forward in time and nets demand against time-phased receipts, not just point-in-time on-hand, so a later build can satisfy a later need. Here it is explained.
What Is Material Requirements Planning (MRP)?
Material requirements planning explodes a bill of materials, nets against inventory, and time-offsets the result into planned make or buy orders. Here is MRP explained.
What Is a Planned Order Receipt?
A planned order receipt is a system-suggested future supply in a bucket, not yet firmed into a real order. Here is the MRP term explained and how a planner acts on it.