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 > Tools > Production Planning Tool Production Planing Tool #### Step 1: Select and get Sales Order * Select sales orders for MRP using filters (Time, Item, and Customer) * Click on Get Sales Order to generate a list. Production Planing Tool #### Step 2: Get Item from Sales Orders. You can add/remove or change quantity of these Items. Production Planing Tool #### Step 3: Create Production Orders Production Planing Tool #### Step 4: Create Material Request Create Material Request for Items with projected shortfall. Production Planing Tool 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. {next}