Production Plan Churn
See how much the plan is really moving — and who moved it.
The production plan changes constantly, but you can’t tell real reschedules from MRP renumbering noise — or whether a planner or the system moved it.
A week-over-week volatility tracker for the production plan: it separates real reschedules from MRP renumbering noise, attributes each change to planner or system, and pinpoints the materials and weeks taking the most whiplash.
About this tool
What Production Plan Churn solves
Every week, MRP regenerates the production plan and thousands of order lines shift. Most of that movement isn’t a real schedule change — it’s renumbering: orders dropping and re-creating with new identities while the actual dates barely move. The few genuine reschedules a planner needs to act on get buried in that churn. Production Plan Churn diffs the plan week-over-week, separates real date moves from renumbering noise, and attributes each change to a planner decision or a system action — so you can see how volatile the plan really is, and where the whiplash concentrates by material and by week. It’s the plan-stability question MRP exception reports were never built to answer.