Planning (MRP): Set up

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

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Give each item the instructions a planning run needs — made or bought, in what order sizes, with how much lead time and safety stock — as a product default or a per-warehouse override, one at a time or in bulk	Set item planning policies
State what you intend to build, independently of whether anyone has ordered it — and have the planning run plan every component underneath it	Build a master production schedule
Load planning policies and master production schedule entries from a spreadsheet, check every row before anything is written, and use the export round-trip to set up a whole catalogue	Import MPS entries and planning policies
Every setting on an item's planning policy — what it does, which lot-sizing rule or planning method reads it, and the rules the plan enforces between them	Planning policy settings