sagartalathi
2nd February 2007, 11:22
Scenario is

We can manufacture X item 1000 qty. in a week. Sales order comes for 5000 qty at the staring of the week & we have to deliver 5000 qty. in the same week. how this will be maped in the system using MPS.(Only by inhouse production)

can anybody suggest for the same.

Thanks

just_fro
3rd February 2007, 00:13
MPS is a typical LONG term planning and is to be used for items with critical materials and/or critical capacities.
A demand coming in at the beginning of the (this?) week sounds more like short term planning....so MRP. (in both cases you're a bit late with production :D )
When demand is hard to forecast, you would need safetystock (in both MPS and MRP)

But in general MPS shifts the demand to the end of a timebucket and plans receipts at the beginning of the bucket. The long term planning would plan the receipt of 5000 relative to the bucketlength. Weekly periods would result in 5 weeks with 1000 per week, Monthly buckets in 1000 and 4000. (there is a lot more going on, like timefences and so, but then again, in this case MPS doesn't sound like the proper method)