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 'Planning Matrix' shows the capacity overview per resource for the past weeks, the current week, and the next 10 weeks, including the backlog and how long it takes to catch up on the backlog with the current capacity.

In the Public Holidays table you enter all public holidays per calendar year. A description and a date can be entered. This article shows how to organize the public holidays and what you should pay attention to when working on a public holiday.

Many companies want to achieve more with the data they have available. For example, they want to combine data from machines or other software packages with MKG data. This can easily be done using the Arkoni platform. In this platform it is possible to build additional low-code custom solutions on MKG using MKG data and other data sources. This way, Arkoni can offer an MKG customer its own customized solution. This add-on combines the MKG Planning with employee data from an external package.

By creating an overview of the total number of working hours for an entire fiscal year, you determine your return on hours. This makes it possible to calculate your minimum hourly rate and you are able to better monitor your budgets. This article shows you how to create this overview.

To link actions in the logistics processes of MKG to financial bookings, you can use 4 process groups: for sales, purchasing, stock, and production. The settings of the purchasing group(s) can be found in the process table 'Purchasing Groups'.

To plan, resources must be entered.

We describe how to work with the schedule. We have entered several orders and defined several resources, in this case machines. For simplicity, we do not provide explanations of the buttons, screens, and controls here.

The 'Resource Calendar' allows for the setup of an availability calendar for the resource. This availability period can be linked to a resource.

In the process table 'Resource Group', a resource group can be defined. This can be used for reporting and for displaying a capacity overview.

To be able to schedule with a resource, the availability of the resource must also be specified for all days of the week and public holidays.

The capacity overview is a separate module in MKG that displays how capacity is planned relative to the available capacity.

From the Production Advice List, orders can be scheduled. The scheduled operations are displayed in the production schedule, resource schedule, and capacity schedule. This guide shows how to schedule a production order.

In addition to production orders, calculations can also be scheduled.