Advanced Manufacturing Planning for Complex Production
A nightly programmatic planning engine that creates, schedules, and adjusts your production plan across complex, multi-level BOMs, while keeping firmed (or released) production orders fixed.
Cetec ERP Can Help You
Plan Across Multiple Complex BOMs
- Generate planned internal build orders across multi-level BOM structures
- Propagate changes through shared subassemblies and component demand automatically
- Reflect forecasts, order demand, inventory position, and planning rules in one nightly run
Plan Across Multiple Complex BOMs
- Generate planned internal build orders across multi-level BOM structures
- Propagate changes through shared subassemblies and component demand automatically
- Reflect forecasts, order demand, inventory position, and planning rules in one nightly run
Other Advanced Manufacturing Planning Features Include
Nightly Planning Run
Regenerate planned manufacturing supply nightly based on current demand, inventory, and planning settings.
Multi-Level BOM Propagation
Re-queue subassemblies and component demand automatically as parent workorders are created, changed, or removed.
Unreleased Workorder Reshaping
Create, iCreate, increase, decrease, move, consolidate, or cancel unreleased planned workorders as needed.ncrease, decrease, move, consolidate, or cancel unreleased planned workorders as needed.
Firm Fence Control
Respect released or locked workorders so committed production stays fixed.
Order Period Planning
Group near-term demand within a planning window to reduce unnecessary order churn.
Safety Time Offsets
Pull required completion dates earlier when planners need time-based protection.
Lead Time Back-Scheduling
Calculate work start timing based on manufacturing lead time and required completion date.
Lot Sizing Rules
Apply reorder point, EOQ, MOQ, and standard pack logic when sizing planned work.
Waterfall Visibility
Plan against time-phased supply and demand by date bucket.
Planning for Shared Components
Coordinate demand across parents that consume the same lower-level parts or subassemblies.
Why It Matters
Manufacturing planning gets harder as product structure, forecast horizon, and shared material dependencies grow. A planner may be dealing with hundreds of products, multi-level BOMs, common subassemblies, and long lead-time purchased parts at the same time. In that kind of environment, planning cannot depend on someone manually rebuilding the schedule every day. Cetec ERP’s Advanced Manufacturing Planning feature addresses that problem by automatically recalculating planned manufacturing supply each night for unreleased work, helping teams keep supply aligned to demand without disturbing workorders already committed to production. This gives planners a controlled way to stay responsive without turning the live production schedule into a moving target.
Pricing
$1000/month
($750/month for Enterprise customers)