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	"_label": "Production Planning Tool"
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Production Planning Tool helps you plan production and purchase of Items for a period (usually a week or a month).

This list of Items can be generated from the open Sales Orders in the system and will generate:

- Production Orders for each Item.
- Purchase Requests for Items whose Projected Quantity is likely to fall below zero.

To use the Production Planning Tool, go to:


> Manufacturing > Production Planning Tool


![Material Requisition Planning](img/mrp.png)

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#### Step 1: Select and get Sales Order

Select sales orders for MRP using filters (Time, Item, and Customer)


![Production Planning Tool](img/mrp-1.png)

Click on Get Sales Order to generate a list.

![Production Planning Tool](img/mrp-1.1.png)

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#### Step 2: Get Item from Sales Orders.

 You can add/remove or change quantity of these Items.

 ![Production Planning Tool](img/mrp-2.png)


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#### Step 3: Create Production Orders

![Production Planning Tool](img/mrp-3.png)

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#### Step 4: Create Material Request

Create Material Request for Items with projected shortfall.


![Production Planning Tool](img/mrp-4.png)

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The Production Planning Tool is used in two stages:

- Selection of Open Sales Orders for the period based on “Expected Delivery Date”.
- Selection of Items from those Sales Orders.


The tool will update if you have already created Production Orders for a particular Item against its Sales Order (“Planned Quantity”).

You can always edit the Item list and increase / reduce quantities to plan your production.

> Note: How do you change a Production Plan? The output of the Production Planning Tool is the Production Order. Once your orders are created, you can change them by amending the Production Orders.