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What Is a Planning Bucket in MRP?
A planning bucket is a fixed time period, day, week, or custom period, used to group demand and supply when projecting inventory forward. Here is the term explained.
What Is a Punch Source in Shop Floor Tracking?
A punch source records who or what created a production punch: operator, supervisor, an import, or the system. Here is the term explained with its four values.
What Is a Requirement Type in a Routing Step?
A requirement type sets whether a routing step is measured in hours, pieces, or both, with the binding limit constraining the schedule. Here is the term explained.
What Is a Schedule Operator Assignment?
A schedule operator assignment records the engine's operator booking for one scheduled operation. Here is the term explained and why it is a plan, not a payroll record.
What Is a Scheduled Receipt in MRP?
A scheduled receipt is an already-confirmed future supply, such as an open work order or purchase order. Here is the term explained and how a planner nets against it.
What Is an Actual Entry Mode in Shop Floor Tracking?
An actual entry mode is the convention deciding whether hours or pieces are the recorded truth for an operation. See the three modes and how EDGEBIC captures each.
What Is an MPS Entry Status (Suggested, Firm, Released)?
An MPS entry status tracks a master schedule quantity through Suggested, Firm, and Released. Here is the lifecycle explained and how a planner commits a build.
What Is an Objective Preset in Scheduling Optimization?
An objective preset is a named, ordered combination of scheduling goals the optimizer compares tier by tier. Here are the presets explained and how they trade off.
What Is Infinite Capacity Planning?
Infinite capacity planning nets material requirements without checking whether machines have room. Here is the MRP concept explained and how a finite engine differs.
What Is Partial Confirm Behavior in Scheduling?
Partial confirm behavior is the site rule for what happens when an operator closes a job short of its planned hours. Here are the three policies explained.
What Is Work in Process (WIP) in Manufacturing?
Work in process is inventory that has started production but is not yet finished. Here is WIP explained, with how a finite scheduler tracks and shrinks it.
What Is a Bottleneck Work Center?
A bottleneck is the work center whose capacity caps the whole plant's throughput. Learn how flagging it turns on constraint-aware anchor scheduling.