You can conveniently manage planned orders from the Planned production orders , Planned purchase orders , and Planned transfer order forms.

You can use the Statusfield on the Overviewtab as a tool to help you keep track of your progress. There are three options:

• When master scheduling generates planned orders, they have the status of Unprocessed.

• When you choose not to firm a planned order, you can give it the status of Processed.

• When you choose to firm a planned order, you can give it the status of Approved. This indicates that you approve firming the planned order, but it is not firmed yet.

You can firm planned orders by clicking Functions> Firm. You can firm the following planned orders:

• The planned order that is selected on the Overviewtab.

• Multiple planned orders. Select the Markingfield for the planned orders that you want to firm.

• Selected planned orders. Click Functions> Select planned orderto filter the planned orders that you want to firm.

• Planned orders that are generated by an explosion from the Explosion form. Click Planned orders, select the planned order, and then click Functions> Firm.

When a planned order is firmed, it is moved to the orders section of the relevant module. You can use the Logtab and the Logfilter on the Filtertab, to see which planned orders are firmed, the firming date, and the responsible person.