Master Planning Implementation – Advanced Scenarios
When working with master planning, companies do not always have simple scenarios such as the ones we saw in Chapter 10. Multiple warehouses and sites often come into the equation, which obliges planning transfer orders and replenishments. Consider, for example, one facility that manufactures semi-finished items delivered to other facilities that produce the finished goods. Times and dates are crucial to address that problem. When shipping items overseas, longer lead times are needed, and replenishment or purchase orders cannot be modified. This brings up the importance of the freezing time of the coverage group.
The post-pandemic world brings other problems into the master plan, such as demand’s dynamism. Some companies cannot plan this dynamic demand, so they rely on demand-driven planning techniques where a stock buffer is placed in some warehouses and demand is calculated daily. This allows facilities to have the...
