Planning (MRP): Run and read the plan

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

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What happens between pressing Run and getting planned orders back — collecting demand, netting against supply, sizing each order and offsetting it for lead time	How a planning run works
Start a planning run from the Workbench — choose the mode, horizon and buckets, narrow it to part of the catalogue, follow it in the job tray, and read what the finished run tells you	Run a planning cycle
How to read the Planned Orders table and the period-by-period plan behind any one suggestion — the six requirement rows, what a single bucket is made of, and the difference between a due date and a release date	Read the time-phased plan
Follow any planned order back to the demand that caused it — the customer order, forecast, master schedule entry or parent build — and open the source document where there is one	Trace why an order exists
The plan says what to build and when to start it. Capacity Planning says whether the hours to build it exist — per work centre, per period, against the hours you really have	Check capacity
Put two completed planning runs side by side and see what changed — how many orders, of which supply type, for how much quantity	Compare two runs
Set up the transfer routes that say which warehouse supplies which, so items planned as Transfer get a source warehouse, a realistic transit time, and a transfer you can carry out	Plan replenishment across warehouses