One of the advantages with the reverse planning is that you can plan in different level of urgencies.
And I can show this with an example.
So normally, if you run a full MRP planning, you will plan everything in one go.
And it’s difficult to handle the most important stuff first and figuring out if you actually lack some company tomorrow or Friday, and then you’re looking at lines that has to do with five weeks from now.
But in this example, if I calculate simple MRP here in my symbol MRP journal, I can use different templates.
And when you download the app, we will come up with many different out of the box templates, best practice templates that you can use.
And one of them will be find critical items below zero, an inventory below zero.
This is the most critical stuff, meaning I’m looking in a specific period.
Planning period could be one week, could be three months.
I’m looking at do we go below zero and do we go below zero on the end inventory.
So I’m not interested in going below zero in the planning period because if I have a later supply it’s okay and I just need to move the demands later on.
So this is one of the most critical planning templates to use.
If I run this one I will find items where on my end inventory I’m actually below zero.
In this case I have two items.
My city bike here, which is one of them.
It’s a small one here and my New York lady bike.
So Monday morning, the first thing I will do is planning like this, finding stuff that is actually critical.
I can suggest quantities to order.
You can see this in other videos.
Set action message.
Yes, I would like to do this.
Carry out actions, moving those two lines into my reverse planning worksheet.
Basically, now I could carry out and handle those two.
Or if I’m not going to start those production orders just now, I could continue in the next level of urgency.
Maybe I would like to calculate the same calculation, except looking for items that goes below safety stock in the period, just to see if I need some extra now or how many items we have in this planning.
So instead of planning on zero, I’m just planning on safety stock, still on the end inventory of the period.
So this is the second most important or second most critical things to plan.
Still on my main location, same dates, etc.
But now we have more lines in here because we’re triggering on safety stock.
So if I scroll right, I will find on my end inventory lots of items with zero on it, items with quantities that are below safety stock.
And just like before, I could suggest quantity to order or I could manually fill in the lines looking at either selecting actions manually like this or setting all of them depending on what you prefer and carry out actions and this will apply those lines to the planning worksheet open the Rastering worksheet.
So this way I can build up having many different templates with different urgency.
Let’s just take a third one, which is the most common one.
Serum, safety stock and then reorder point, meaning ignore all the lines.
I’m ignoring the line that already planned because they’re already in the journal.
So I have a check mark in here.
If I look at all the templates in here and I check the template card, I have a check mark here saying skip if already planned, meaning if it’s already in the reverse planning worksheet, don’t handle it again.
So using the below reorder point template, it’s the same logic, except now I’m looking at reorder point and I only have those eight lines or whatever back, which is a reorder point trigger, but not a safety stock trigger.
Like before, it was a safety stock trigger instead of a signal stock trigger.
And this way I can have many different templates unfolding less level of critical stuff.
And maybe in the evening or afternoon, the first day I will create purchase orders, create production orders or carry out depending on my planning frequency.
This provides high level of flexibility for the planner.