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About QZ Infomatics →Request a demoA production plan the shop floor cannot deliver is not a plan.
It is a wish with dates on it.
Production planning software schedules manufacturing work against available capacity, materials and due dates. It converts sales orders and forecasts into a production plan, then into work orders carrying the routing, machines and labour each requires — so the shop floor knows what to make, in what sequence, and with what.
MRP
MRP — material requirements planning — works backwards from the production schedule, using the bill of materials, current stock, open purchase orders and supplier lead times.
For UAE manufacturers importing raw material, MRP is not an optimisation. It is the difference between planning and reacting.
The foundation
A bill of materials lists every component, sub-assembly, quantity and operation required to produce one unit of a finished item.
Material planning, production costing, and stock deduction when the work order is completed. Three things from one structure.
Multi-level BOMs handle sub-assemblies produced in-house. Versioning tracks engineering changes, so a batch produced last year can still be costed against the specification in force at the time.
Almost every implementation finds the same problem: the BOMs either do not exist formally, or they exist and are outdated, because the actual production method lives in the knowledge of two experienced people on the floor. Rebuilding them accurately is the project.
Capacity
Confirmed sales orders drive the plan, material issues deduct from stock, and finished goods receive into inventory ready for dispatch — so sales can quote a realistic promise date rather than an optimistic guess.
Costing
Standard cost is set from the bill of materials and routing. Actual material, labour and machine time are recorded against each work order.
Material price variance, material usage variance, labour efficiency variance. Three different problems with three different owners — procurement, production and supervision — and a single "our margin dropped" figure identifies none of them.
Persistent negative usage variance on one product almost always means the BOM no longer matches how the item is actually made.
Quality
Quality checkpoints can be set at goods receipt, in process and before dispatch, with results recorded against the batch and non-conformances routed for disposition.
Full traceability links finished goods back to raw material batches and suppliers, in both directions. For food, pharmaceutical and regulated industrial manufacturers in the UAE this is a compliance requirement.
Implementation
Building or verifying BOMs and routings is the critical path. Most manufacturers underestimate it because the information feels like it already exists — it does, but in people rather than in a system.
Almost every successful deployment goes live with those, then adds production as a second phase once the item master and stock are clean.
It produces plans nobody trusts and a system nobody uses. That is the whole reason for the phasing.
MRP FAQs
Production planning software schedules manufacturing work against available capacity, materials and due dates. It converts sales orders and forecasts into a production plan, then into work orders carrying the routing, machines and labour each requires, so the shop floor knows what to make and in what sequence.
MRP — material requirements planning — calculates what materials you need, in what quantity and by when, using the bill of materials, current stock, open purchase orders and the production schedule. It generates purchase and production suggestions, which is what stops a line halting for one missing component.
A bill of materials lists every component, sub-assembly, quantity and operation needed to produce one unit of a finished item. It drives material planning, production costing and stock deduction. Multi-level BOMs handle sub-assemblies made in-house, and versioning tracks engineering changes over time.
Yes. Work centres carry available hours, and the system schedules operations against that capacity so a bottleneck is visible before the week starts. Finite scheduling stops the plan promising more than the shop floor can physically deliver, which is the usual failure of spreadsheet-based planning.
Yes. Material issues, labour hours and machine time post against each work order, giving actual production cost per batch against standard cost. Variance analysis then shows whether a margin problem came from material price, material usage or labour efficiency — three issues with different remedies.
Yes. Quality checkpoints can be set at receipt, in process and before dispatch, with results recorded against the batch. Full traceability links finished goods back to raw material batches and suppliers, which is a requirement for food, pharmaceutical and regulated industrial manufacturers operating in the UAE.
Confirmed sales orders drive the production plan, material issues deduct from stock, and finished goods receive into inventory ready for dispatch. Because it sits in one database, sales can quote a realistic promise date based on the actual production schedule rather than an optimistic guess.
Two to four months, and the timeline is set by BOM and routing data rather than software. Most manufacturers find their BOMs are outdated or held informally by production staff, and rebuilding them accurately becomes the real project. Configuration is straightforward once that data exists.
Talk to a consultant
Book a free 30 minute call with QZ Infomatics in Dubai. You will leave it with a platform recommendation, the reasoning behind it, a realistic timeline and an indicative budget band — before you commit to anything.
