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Forecasting
Being able to respond ‘on-the-fly’ to last minute changes to a scheduled production run without compromising the core process, balance customer demand, forecast requirements and plan production with pin-point accuracy are aspects of the manufacturing process that ‘truth-be-known’ have shortened the life span of many fine managers and enthusiastic production planners over the years. The ‘engine-room’ activities of any business with a manufacturing, distribution and/or assembly component will be planning, production and inventory management which is why Greentree’s MRP & Forecasting modules are intricately integrated with Greentree’s Inventory Management module.
KEY BENEFITS
- Plan production automatically and accurately
- Efficiently manage investment in expensive inventory
- Produce timely and competitively priced products
- Respond on the fly to production planning change requirements
- Automatically suggest and generate Factory & Purchase orders
- Provides accurate planning of inventory purchasing
- Manage requirements and forecasts by selective categories (trees)
- Forecast accurately using historical & seasonal data
- Manual adjustments allow for unforeseen situations
- Manage the manufacturing process with visual planning board
- Analyse factory order scheduling in Excel
Use historical data, seasonal fluctuations and common sense to forecast demand
If you’re not psychic the Forecasting module uses historical sales data, mathematical calculations and human intuition to forecast future inventory requirements and allows adjustments for seasonal fluctuations, thus ensuring that forecasting matches the natural curve of your business demand. You can make manual adjustments for unusual events or unseasonal demand so you’re always on-track. This is an easy to manage process, as once you have established your criteria the forecast is automatically generated for you.Forecasts can be used to feed into the MRP module’s processes, providing a base to build the material requirements planning on.
Integration with other Greentree modules
Greentree’s modular system builds upon and integrates with all other modules to ensure that every drop of business intelligence is extracted from every transaction right across the business – nothing goes to waste. This translates into aggregated business value and you need only purchase the modules that best fit your business.All aspects of the MRP and Forecasting modules are fully integrated to the Inventory, Purchase Orders, Bill of Materials/Factory Orders and General Ledger modules. This provides an up-to-date and accurate picture of inventory balances, purchases and movements as they happen and how these affect the financial side of the business.
Key features
- Four Demand Generation options
- Forecast and MRP by Inventory Trees
- Can also be used by purchasing and distribution-only businesses
- System generated suggested action messages
- System generated purchase and factory orders
- Simple to use MRP review form
- Drill down to analyse source requirement
- Maintain multiple forecasts
- Process multiple MRP runs
- Ability to flag items as critical
- Option to include or exclude hold and don’t commit orders
- Kitset requirements included in the generation process
- Visual manufacturing planning board with export to Excel
- Powerful Reporting
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