Features
Functions within the workbench let you concurrently manage work centers and production lines within a single workbench. You can authorize work or schedule due dates for repetitive production orders on the production line and for discrete production orders on work centers. From a single workbench screen, master schedulers can:
• Split production orders.
• Reschedule or change the status of production orders.
• Maintain production order details.
• Manage production order operation lists.
• Move production orders to alternate production lines/work centers.
• Release production orders.
• Export schedules to a spreadsheet (MS Excel).
You can display:
• Supply, demand, and capacity in daily increments at the item level
• Supply, demand, and capacity in weekly and monthly buckets
• Capacity and demand issues
• A list of items requiring master scheduling attention
• Production orders that are past due, cannot complete on time, have component availability shortages, or are released
• Production order status
• Resources to be scheduled
• Demand details
• Action messages
• Item master or planning data
• Inventory details
The following topics provide more information on MSW elements, the functions they provide, and QAD EE program functions that you can access from within MSW.