Autoplan glossary

Term	Definition
Master schedule (plan input)	User input demand for deliverables. Choose the part required, how many are required, and when it is required.
Material Requirements Planning (MRP I)	Determines the components required to build an assembly based on supply and demand in the factory. Backwards schedules from the master schedule.
Material Resource Planning (MRP II)	Forward schedules dates based on capacity constraints in the factory.
Order policy	A way to define how plan items should be grouped or created.
Period of supply	A type of order policy that groups plan items by date buckets.
Plan item	An output of Autoplan. Plan items can be linked to inventory, runs, or purchases. Or they can be unlinked, meaning that they are a signal to take action.
Reorder point	A type of order policy that creates a new plan item purely based on supply levels for a given part.
Safety stock	A way to artificially increase demand for a part so that extra parts are kept on hand.