As a production planner, you want to be able to build and manage a complete forecast structure from a sales or production order. After all, you want insight into purchasing needs, planning load, and lead times. Forecast explosions can be automatically generated. This article explains how it works.

The standard report 'Open Production Order Lines' displays all production order lines that are not fully finished. This information can be used to check which production order lines are in progress.

The standard report 'Result per Customer based on Production Order' shows the pre-calculation and actual cost amounts and times of all production orders that have been reported financially ready in the current selected fiscal year. It provides a breakdown by material, operations, and outsourcing. The report is grouped by customer.

The standard report 'Operations of Pending Production Orders' displays the operations of pending production orders, grouped by week and year of the planned production date. For each operation, insight is provided into the expected lead times, such as setup time, processing time per piece, man-hours per machine, and total production time. The report groups data by operation and production order line, and includes totals per week and per year. This report supports the planning and capacity analysis of the production department.

The standard report 'WIP Standard' provides an overview of work in progress (WIP) per production order. It shows the progress of production, costs (labor, machinery, materials, outsourcing), realized and billable revenue, and the percentage ready for each sub-assembly. Totals are calculated per production group, distinguishing between completed and non-completed work. The report aids in assessing work in progress positions and the financial progress of production projects.

The standard report 'Planning Overview Sales' provides an overview of sales orders and related production planning. Each order line displays information about items, quantities, delivery dates, planned production, reporting ready, and related operations. The report indicates whether the operation has started or finished, if the planned dates have been met, and if certain data is missing. Through visual signaling, it helps monitor delivery times and follow up on production activities.

The standard report 'WIP at Reference Period' displays the work in progress (WIP) within a selected period, broken down by cost components such as man hours, machine costs, materials, and outsourcing. The data is grouped by production order line and general ledger account, with totals per group and summaries per production group. Additionally, the report includes a pivot table with WIP values per production group, providing insights into the composition and distribution of work in progress within a financial period.

The standard report 'PC-AC Production Orders' provides a detailed overview of production orders, including a comparison of pre-calculation and actual costs. For each order, data is displayed on items, quantities, material usage, operations, outsourcing, man-hours, and machine-hours. The report shows both pre-calculation and actual costs, including deviations per cost type. This provides insight into actual performance compared to expectations, including PC-AC factors and deviation amounts, sorted by production order and production group.

In a bill of materials, calculation or production order, you can manually enter a pre-calculation, but you can also extensively copy it from an existing BOM, calculation or production order. In this article, you will learn how to do that.

Planning production orders brings together data from all over MKG, such as operations and resources, but also employees and time registration. If an operation goes differently than planned, a notification may arise. What does such a notification mean and what triggers it? This article provides an overview of all planning notifications.

Business processes are connected in an ERP system. In MKG you can easily navigate between linked processes, without having to manually open the relevant module and remember and retype or copy the correct order number, item number or other reference. To do this, use the link button or the Go to button. You can read more about this in this article.

The standard dashboard 'PC-AC Employee Hours' provides insight into the PC-AC ratio per employee based on the AC hours. The lower the AC relative to the PC, the better the efficiency.

With the standard dashboard 'Unmanned Performance', you gain insight into the extent to which the actual production aligns with the planned man-machine ratio, visible per operation, item, and individual production order. The lower the realized MMR, the more a machine can run unmanned.

With the standard dashboard 'Item Analysis' you gain insight into the history of an item. On the sales side, you can see how the revenue and cost price of the item have changed over time and what this meant for the margin. You also gain insight into the PC-AC and the hours spent on the production of the item and, if it is a purchase item, how the purchase prices have changed.

To work with production locations, MKG must be properly configured. This article explains which administrative settings and tables are important.

The standard dashboard 'Logistic Actions' provides insight into the order lines that still need to be delivered, produced, or received, divided into different categories and time frames. This way, you know exactly which logistics actions you still need to perform.

With the new 'Production Locations' functionality, semi-finished products can be traced during the production process. A production employee always knows where the semi-finished products were placed after the previous operation.

Using purchase specifications, it is possible to specify the price of a material to be purchased in multiple components, such as cutting costs or setup costs. This specification becomes visible on the purchase order. In this article, we will show you how to apply purchase specifications to materials to be purchased for a workbench frame.

The homepage dashboard 'Logistic Actions' is a simplified view intended to be placed on the MKG Homepage. This dashboard provides insight into the number of order lines that still need to be delivered, produced, or received, divided into different categories and time periods. This way, you immediately know which logistics actions you still need to perform.

The standard dashboard 'Production Order Status List' displays all subassemblies linked to operations that have not yet been reported ready, based on planning operations. The sorting is based on the planned date of the subassembly.