How many hours will I run my machines next year? What does that mean for man-hours? By entering a number of variables you can easily budget all your operations. Per period you can see the budget machine hours and the required man-hours at a glance. This article shows you how to budget your operations.

Based on the allocated budgets for all employees and all operations, you fill in the Occupancy Plan, a matrix in which you indicate who is expected to do what for the coming year. You use the Coverage Plan to divide all costs, except labor costs, over the direct and indirect operations and to divide all indirect hours over the direct operations.

The production order pre-calculation can be manually entered. This is done by adding semi-finished products, materials, and operations for the possible different components. In this article: operations.

Currently, twelve standard material formulas are defined in the Material Formulas process table. These can be expanded up to 999 variants.

The software includes several groups within the units: 'Quantity', 'Weight', 'Length', 'Area', 'Miscellaneous', 'Time', and 'Volume'. Each group has a base unit. From this base unit, a ratio is determined in relation to other units within the group.