Production managers must know what to produce and how much of each particular product to produce. Capacity Planning Capacity Planning is now known as Material Requirement Planning. This involves determining what raw materials are needed, the amount needed, and creating orders to acquire these materials. This is the last step in the manufacturing process. This is the process of taking your raw materials and building the actual end products.
Every company handles the production of the products differently.
ERP systems are able to help support different production strategies. This allows each company to produce in a way that is beneficial to them. Baan has manufacturing tools that help in each one of the detailed processes above. Sales can be forecasted and sales trend analysis can be performed with BaanERP Project. They have an extended manufacturing tool that tracks customer demands so that manufacturers can plan their production schedule.