Planning (MRP): Run and read the plan

This section covers the run itself and making sense of what it returns. Read how a planning run works before you rely on it, then start a run from the Workbench and learn to read the time-phased plan behind each suggestion. From there you can trace an order back to its demand, check the plan against your capacity, compare two runs, and set up the transfer routes between warehouses.

To…	Go to…
understand how a run nets demand and sizes orders	How a planning run works
start a planning run from the Workbench	Run a planning cycle
read the period-by-period plan behind any suggestion	Read the time-phased plan
trace a planned order back to the demand behind it	Trace why an order exists
check whether you have the hours to build the plan	Check capacity
see what changed between two planning runs	Compare two runs