The Graphical Planner module is from Preactor® International. Sage Graphical Planner is based on Preactor 200 FCS v12.0 SP1.
Important! The Preactor® International copyright and licence agreement is contained in the Sage End User Licence Agreement.
Use Preactor's help system and Preactor's training videos to learn about the user interface and read detailed descriptions of the features and windows you can use. Help is available when you press F1 or use the Help and Support option in Sage Graphical Planner. Training videos are available, if you have internet access, when you use the Training Videos option in Sage Graphical Planner.
Note: Not all of the features available in the user interface and described in Preactor's help system and training videos are applicable when using Sage Graphical Planner. For example, any features that are for use in APS systems, are not relevant. They are there for users who want to upgrade to Assembly Controller, which is a Preactor® International APS system. Any references to the Products Data table are not relevant because Sage Graphical Planner uses product details from Sage 200's Stock Control module.
The Graphical PlannerA tool for managing production schedules graphically. You can resolve machine conflicts and then address the question of optimum efficiency. Or you can work towards optimum efficiency and then deal with machine conflicts. You control start/finish times for labour and machine operations. is a Finite Capacity Scheduling tool, which works alongside MRPMaterials Requirements Planning (MRP). MRP recommends purchase orders, transfers and work orders to balance supply and demand.. It enables you to analyse and run resource plans for all demands in Manufacturing.
Different plans can be produced and saved for the same set of demands, so that you can assess the impact of your resources on your day-to-day scheduling needs. For example, you can add overtime or extra shifts to be able to meet a particular deadline. Once you have defined your production plan in Graphical Planner, you can action the MRPMaterials Requirements Planning (MRP). MRP recommends purchase orders, transfers and work orders to balance supply and demand. recommendations.
Manufacturing controls and filters the data to be viewed and planned in Graphical Planner. You must set criteria to ensure data is exported from MRP to Graphical Planner in order to modify it. After modifying it in Graphical PlannerA tool for managing production schedules graphically. You can resolve machine conflicts and then address the question of optimum efficiency. Or you can work towards optimum efficiency and then deal with machine conflicts. You control start/finish times for labour and machine operations., you must import the information back into MRPMaterials Requirements Planning (MRP). MRP recommends purchase orders, transfers and work orders to balance supply and demand.. You can then action the recommendations in MRP.
Before using Graphical Planner with MRP, you should set up resources, non-working periods and planning defaults in Manufacturing and also calendars and resources in Graphical Planner.
Some of the information you can enter and use in the Bill of Materials module cannot be used in the Estimating, Planning and Works Orders modules. If you are using these Manufacturing modules, there are guidelines to follow for setting up resources and operations so that these can be used in all Manufacturing modules.
Note: Installing Graphical Planner is described in Sage 200 On Premise Deployment and Installation Guide.
You can access Graphical Planner in the following ways:
Open: Works Orders > Graphical Planner
or
Open: Planning > MRP > Processing > Graphical Planner.
Create a short cut of Start > Programs> Preactor International > Preactor 12 > Preactor 12.
When you open Preactor 12 from outside Sage 200, you must select the correct .prcdf file from the Preactor Configuration Selector window.
In almost all cases, this will be Graphical Planner v12.prcdf.
What do you want to do?
Scheduling in Graphical Planner
Overview
Guidelines on using all Manufacturing modules
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