As a general rule, production quantities should be directly related to the period used for scheduling production. If production is scheduled by day, the production quantity should not be sufficient to cover an entire week. This becomes important when a production line is scheduled to process different products during a given week.

If MRP uses a POQ order policy and the period is a week or longer, the production quantities recommended by MRP planned orders might cover a week. In this case, separate the quantity recommended by MRP into smaller quantities.

One day is the shortest period you can use to schedule production. You can schedule multiple items each day, but if scheduled production is by shift, then you must summarize production into daily quantities before entering it into the workbench.