Master Scheduling Workbench (MSW)

The MSW is a .NET UI application that increases master scheduling efficiency by displaying and manipulating system demand, supply, scheduling, inventory, production order, advanced repetitive, and MRP data from several QAD EE programs into a single workbench.

Note: Production order is a new term to replace the term work order. It represents both repetitive and discrete orders.

You can use the MSW to interact with production lines, machines, and production order schedules and make changes where necessary.

Within MSW, you can update the production order status—planned, firmed, allocated, released, closed—as well as create production orders, while considering all demand and supply sources, from this single workbench. You can ensure that items with similar attributes are scheduled together while also ensuring that there is enough capacity to take advantage of running similar items. You can also identify items with demand that have no released production orders or check component availability for each production order to be released.

User-configurable parameters control the number of days you can directly manage a scheduling period, as well as the future and historical periods available for schedule review.

Event-based color coding lets you easily identify areas of concern. You can review and manipulate schedule and production order data in a simulation mode, then save the updated information back to QAD EE as repetitive/discrete production schedules/orders.