Concept	General Description of Manufacturing
1.	Resource Planning calculates how much to manufacture.
2.	It uses physical lot size minimums and multiples.
3.	RP explodes material and resources needed for the planned order schedule.
4	It groups items for work centers and processes.
5	RP allows rough cut capacity planning.
6.	It allocates to warehouses using this priority :
6a.	Backorders , rushes , regular inventory building.
7	It creates purchase orders of needed raw materials.
8	RP creates pick lists of raw material needed by work center.
9	It measures raw material fill rate.
10.	It provides user friendly procedures for overriding calculated planned orders.
11	RP shows detail drop downs of needs and forecasts:
11a.	Forecast , Customer Name, Warehouse Replenishment , dependent demand.
12	It shows major outs next week , expedite and delay.
13.	RP handles vacation shut down and finite loading.
14.	RP handles truck building and release.
15.	It summarizes fill rate , weeks supply , GMROI , sales increase , inventory level.
16.	It projects inventory levels and production flow.