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 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 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.

The standard dashboard 'Project Summary' displays the quotes, orders, and pricing agreements linked per module to the selected project. This provides a comprehensive overview of a project, where all relevant information is centrally accessible.

At some point, a purchased outsourcing returns from the supplier. Before you can report the production order ready, you need to perform the 'Receive Goods' action in MKG. In this article, you will learn how to book an incoming outsourcing.