Monitor MRP-generated planned orders against real-time capacity and material-availability signals, and draft a re-sequenced plan with customer due-date impacts flagged for review.
The weekly MRP run assumes clean capacity and on-time material, and by midweek much of it is already wrong, so planners end up re-sequencing by hand in a spreadsheet.
That manual re-sequencing eats a planner's week and still lags the actual state of the shop floor.
capacity and material-availability signals from MES and WMS
Review and approve
A resin shortage flagged by WMS pushes back two planned orders for customer Delacroix Industries, and the draft re-sequenced plan shows their order slipping 3 days past the confirmed due date.
Try it — same review surface your operators use, with a representative decision. Nothing here is saved or sent anywhere.
Negotiating customer due-date trade-offs with sales, and reconciling planned-versus-actual variance explanations, stay with your production planners.
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