Planning Objects

what are planning objects? in planeus, planning objects are the building blocks of your entire planning process they help you organize everything from high level projects down to individual production steps planning objects are structured in a hierarchy , meaning each level contains details and objects beneath it why are they called planning objects? every company uses different terms and has unique workflows instead of locking into rigid concepts like “job”, “work order”, or “batch”, planeus uses the concept of planning object so everyone can match it to their own terminology and processes this flexibility means that no matter how your operations are structured — planeus can fit right in with the way you already work types of planning objects here’s how the planning objects fit together in planeus projects the top level container in planeus a project includes the customer name and can contain as many order items as you need order items define what articles need to be produced, how many , and by when you also set planning parameters here, like whether to plan forward from today or backward from the delivery date production orders automatically created from order items if the article in an order item has multiple assemblies, planeus creates a separate production order for each one work steps generated automatically based on the technology linked to the article in the order item represent the individual steps in the production process processes created automatically from the article’s process template in the order item represent tasks that happen before or after production , like design, purchasing, or shipping when are these objects created? production orders, work steps, and processes are only created once the project or its order items are scheduled before scheduling, you will not see these objects in the system