Manufacturing Production Scheduling Software

Know What Needs to Be Built, When It Needs to Start and What Could Get in the Way.

Production scheduling gets difficult when customer demand, material availability, purchase orders and work already in production are constantly changing.

MISys Manufacturing brings that information together so you can build a realistic production plan based on what is actually happening in your business.

See upcoming demand. Identify material shortages. Determine when production needs to begin. Then adjust your plan before missed dates become customer problems.

Plan ahead instead of reacting to the schedule after it breaks.

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Can MISys Help Schedule My Production?

Yes. MISys Master Production Scheduling gives manufacturers a forward-looking view of inventory, purchasing, production and demand.

Your schedule can consider:

• Current inventory
• Open purchase orders
• Work orders
• Manufacturing orders
• Sales orders
• Sales quotes or estimates
• Sales forecasts
• Item and assembly lead times
• Location-specific inventory requirements
• Working and non-working production days

The result is a production plan that helps you understand not only what needs to be built, but when materials and production activity need to occur.

See Problems Before They Reach the Shop Floor

A production schedule is only useful if the materials required to support it will actually be available.

MISys analyzes planned production together with inventory and incoming supply to identify where shortages may occur.

Instead of finding out that a component is missing when production is ready to begin, you can identify the shortage while there is still time to purchase, build or reschedule.

Answer Questions Like:

• Do we have enough material to complete the planned production?
• What materials are going to run short?
• When do we need those materials?
• What should we purchase?
• What should we manufacture?
• When does production need to begin?
• Can we meet the requested completion date?
• What happens if demand changes?

Schedule Forward or Backward

Different production situations require different ways of planning.

Schedule Forward From a Start Date

Set the date production can begin and calculate the expected completion date based on your manufacturing requirements.

Schedule Backward From a Required Completion Date

Start with the date an order needs to be completed and work backward to determine when production activity needs to begin.

This helps manufacturers connect production planning more closely to customer commitments and required delivery dates.

Build a Master Production Schedule

Create a Master Production Schedule for the locations and date ranges you want to analyze.

MISys uses your current manufacturing activity and planning data to create a time-phased view of anticipated inventory movement and demand.

You can review the schedule at summary or detailed levels, drill into individual items and examine the activities affecting future availability.

Production Calendar Management

Maintain a manufacturing calendar that reflects how your plant actually operates, including:

• Full production days
• Partial production days
• Non-production days
• Holidays and shutdown periods

Your production plan can then account for the days when manufacturing can actually take place.

Plan Around Real Material Availability

Scheduling production without considering material availability can create a plan that looks good on a calendar but cannot actually be executed.

MISys connects production scheduling with material planning so you can evaluate planned production against:

• Inventory already on hand
• Material already on purchase orders
• Existing production orders
• Location-specific stocking requirements
• Supplier lead times
• Assembly and component lead times

This connection between scheduling and material requirements helps create a plan that purchasing and production can actually support.

Turn the Schedule Into Action

Once your production plan reveals a shortage, MISys helps you determine what needs to happen next.

Production and Purchasing Advice reports can show the items and quantities that need to be purchased or produced to satisfy anticipated shortages.

With Material Requirements Planning (MRP), scheduling requirements can be used to create the purchase orders, work orders and manufacturing orders needed to resolve those shortages.

Learn More About Material Requirements Planning

What If Demand Changes?

Your production plan does not have to be permanent.

Create and save multiple schedules to evaluate different production scenarios before committing purchasing or manufacturing resources.

Apply sales forecasts or planned demand to see how future requirements may affect material availability and production activity.

This gives you the ability to ask “What happens if?” before making the change in the real world.

Connect Sales Demand to Production Planning

MISys can use customer demand from supported accounting systems as part of the production planning process.

Depending on the accounting system and configuration, sales orders and sales quotes or estimates can be retrieved and included in scheduling activities.

This helps connect customer commitments with the manufacturing activity required to fulfill them.

Watch Production Scheduling in MISys

Now that you know what MISys Scheduling is designed to do, take a few minutes to see the workflow inside the software.

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Works With the Accounting Software You Already Use

MISys Manufacturing integrates with:

• QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online
• Sage 50 US
• Sage 50 Canada
• Sage 300
• Sage Intacct