<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml;charset=UTF-8"/> <title>Tutorial / Your first plan </title> <link rel='stylesheet' href='../styles.css' type='text/css' /> <!--PageHeaderFmt--> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="menubar"> <div id="logo" align="center"> <br/><img src='../frepple.bmp' alt="frepple" /><br/> <a href='http://www.frepple.com/'> <strong>a Free<br/>Production Planning<br/>Library</strong> </a></div> <div id="menu"> <br/> <h3><a href='../Main/HomePage.html'>Main</a></h3> <h3><a href='../UI/Main.html'>User Manual</a></h3> <h3><a href='Main.html'>Tutorial</a></h3> <h3><a href='../Frepple/Main.html'>Reference Manual</a></h3> <h3><a href='../Main/FAQ.html'>FAQ</a></h3> <h3><a href='../reference/index.html'>C++ API</a></h3> <br/><div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <br/> <!--PageText--> <div id='wikitext'> <p><a class='wikilink' href='../Main/HomePage.html'>Main</a> > <span class='wikitrail'><a class='wikilink' href='Main.html'>frePPLe Tutorial</a> > <a class='selflink' href='Step5.html'>Your first plan</a></span> </p> <p class='vspace'>Now that your model is ready we will now create a plan and analyze the results. </p> <div class='vspace'></div><ul><li>To <strong>create the plan</strong>, select "execute" from the "tools" menu. The execution screen will appear, as shown below. Select "constrained" plan and hit the "run" button. This will trigger the plan creation. A message will be shown at the top of the screen when the plan is finished.<br /> You can have a look at the log file of the planning run. <div style='text-align: center;'> <img src='../uploads/Tutorial/execute.png' alt='' title='' /></div> <div class='vspace'></div></li><li>The plan generation run in the previous step is a <strong>heuristic algorithm</strong>.<br /> The demands are planned one by one, and search the supply path for available material and capacity. When material, capacity or time constraints are found, a local, heuristic business rule is used to solve the problem.<br /> More details can be found in the manual. <div class='vspace'></div></li><li><strong>Review operation plan</strong><br /> Work in progress... <div class='vspace'></div></li><li><strong>Review purchasing plan</strong><br /> Work in progress... <div class='vspace'></div></li><li><strong>Review demand plan</strong><br /> Work in progress... <div class='vspace'></div></li><li><strong>Review problems</strong><br /> As you already understood from the above, this plan has no problems: all demand could be fully satisfied in time, respecting all material and capacity constraints.<br /> In the next steps, we'll create situations where this is no longer the case. </li></ul><div class='vspace'></div> </div> <!--PageFooterFmt--> <!--HTMLFooter--> </div></div> </body> </html>
