MFG/PRO 9.0 User Guide Volume 3: Manufacturing - QAD.com

234 MFG/PRO USER GUIDE — MANUFACTURING
Ï See Chapter 6,
“Work Orders,”
on page 89.
Ï See Chapter 8,
“Advanced
Repetitive,” on
page 135 and
Chapter 9,
“Repetitive,” on
page 183.
Set the following values for family-level items in Item Master
Maintenance (1.4.1) or Item Planning Maintenance (1.4.7).
Master Schedule. Yes.
Plan Orders. Yes.
Order Policy. Any option other than blank.
Time Fence. Optional.
The components of a multilevel master schedule can be planned using
either the fully manual or computer-assisted technique.
Maintaining Master Schedule Orders
You can enter master schedule orders as firm planned work orders or
create them using repetitive schedules.
Work Orders
You can enter master schedule orders as firm planned orders using Master
Schedule Order Maintenance (22.13) or Work Order Maintenance (16.1).
When you set the order status to Firm Planned, MRP explodes the parent
item’s product structure when planning the gross requirements for its
components. Master schedule orders are managed and released like
normal work orders.
Repetitive Schedules
If you use the Advanced Repetitive or Repetitive module to manage your
manufacturing processes rather than the Work Orders module, you can
enter your master schedule as a repetitive schedule.
Do this using Schedule Maintenance (18.22.2.1) or Repetitive Schedule
Maintenance (18.3) for basic repetitive. Then, explode the repetitive
schedule to create scheduled orders by running Net Change MRP (23.1),
Regenerative MRP (23.2), Schedule Explosion (18.22.2.4), or, for basic
repetitive, Repetitive Schedule Explosion (18.6). Exploding the repetitive
schedule creates new scheduled orders and revises existing orders to
support the repetitive schedule.