Planning (MRP): Act on the plan

This section of Planning (MRP) covers Act on the plan. The pages are listed in the order you'd usually need them.

To…	Go to…
The three states a planned order moves through, who owns it in each one, and why only the last is irreversible	Planned, firm and released
Hold a suggestion so the next planning run leaves it alone, pin the exact quantity or date you agreed, and use edit, accept and dismiss to work the rest of the plan	Firm and pin a planned order
Turn planned orders into real purchase orders, manufacturing orders and warehouse transfers — the one step in planning that can't be undone, and how to read what it skipped	Carry out planned orders
Turn a run of thousands of planned orders into a short list of decisions — the count chips, the severity order, and what accepting or dismissing a message actually does	Work the exceptions inbox
Two order-promising checks — how much you can commit from stock and supply already coming, and how much more you could commit by building it from components on hand	Promise a delivery date
The six messages a planning run can raise — what triggers each one, what it is telling you, and what a planner normally does about it — plus the severities and statuses they carry	Action and exception messages