Background: Planned Order Maintenance
Use the Planned Order Maintenance (MOP) program to add, change, break, move, copy, and delete a planned order. See Road Map for work flow.
This topic has these subtopics:
What is a Planned Order?
How Does Planning Deal with Planned Orders?
Display Planned Orders
Clearing Planned Orders
What is a Planned Order?
A planned order anticipates demand. It is not assigned a number. The major advantage of planned orders, as compared to released orders, is that the planner can maintain and reschedule them as often as necessary to meet a proper scheduling balance. Operationally, it is far easier to reschedule a planned order than it is to change a released order.
If an item's status does not allow creating a purchase order or a manufacturing order, then a planned order is not allowed.
How Does Planning Deal with Planned Orders?
The Finished Goods Planning (MFP) and Material Requirements Planning (MRP) programs assume that planned orders will be released and the items purchased or produced. Therefore, when the planning programs schedule materials and components, they do not distinguish between planned and released orders. However, Finished Goods Planning can cancel or reschedule non-firm planned orders.
Display Planned Orders
You can display existing planned orders with the Planning Profile Inquiry (MRD) program. You can use the Planning Profile Maintenance (MPM) program to update planned orders, including those created by the Finished Goods Planning and Material Requirements Planning programs.
Clearing Planned Orders
The Clear button deletes all planned orders from the highlighted record to the end of the records for that item — all dates greater or equal to the selected due date, regardless of ECL or firm flag. However, if you have an item with two ECLs and you started it on the higher ECL, then only that ECL would be deleted.