How to Use the Master Production Schedule (MPS) in Odoo 19

Short answer: in Odoo 19 Enterprise, tick Master Production Schedule in Manufacturing ‣ Configuration ‣ Settings, choose a time range (for example monthly) and a number of periods, then add the products you want to plan in Manufacturing ‣ Planning ‣ Master Production Schedule. You enter the demand you expect in each period, Odoo suggests how much to make or buy to stay at your Safety Stock Target, and Order turns that suggestion into a manufacturing order or request for quotation. Don’t keep reordering rules on products the MPS plans.

This is the step-by-step guide. If you’re still choosing between the MPS, reordering rules and replenish on order, start with my explainer on replenishment in Odoo.

Applies to

• Odoo version: Odoo 19. I also checked the Odoo 20 MPS documentation, which currently reads the same as the Odoo 19 page.
• Edition: Enterprise only. In Community, the Master Production Schedule setting is shown as an upgrade.
• Apps: Manufacturing and Inventory, plus Purchase for bought products.

Before you start

1. Routes are in place. A manufactured product needs the Manufacture route on its Inventory tab and a bill of materials. A bought product needs the Buy route and a vendor line on its Purchase tab.
2. BoMs are accurate. If you plan a finished product with its BoM, Odoo adds the components to the MPS too, so component quantities and units must be right. See how to set up a bill of materials.
3. You’ve decided what the MPS owns. Usually finished products with seasonal demand and components with long lead times. Archive any reordering rules on those products first.
4. Someone owns the demand estimate. Odoo can suggest one from history, but a planner still has to agree it.

Step by step

1. Switch the MPS on

1. Go to Manufacturing ‣ Configuration ‣ Settings and, under Planning, tick Master Production Schedule.
2. Default Time Range: Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly.
3. Number of Periods: how many columns to show, for example 12 with Monthly. Click Save.

2. Add a product

1. Open Manufacturing ‣ Planning ‣ Master Production Schedule and click Add a Product.
2. Product: the item to plan.
3. Bill of Materials: the BoM, for a manufactured product. Leave it empty if you don’t want its components in the MPS; it can’t be changed later.
4. Route: Manufacture or Buy. With Buy, a Vendor field appears.
5. Production Warehouse: only shown when you run more than one warehouse.
6. Indirect Demand (optional): lets the To Forecast filter hide the product, handy for components you only plan through their parents.

3. Set the replenishment options

• Safety Stock Target: the stock you want left at the end of every period.
• Minimum to Replenish: the smallest quantity worth ordering in a period, such as a supplier’s minimum order. When a period needs anything, Odoo suggests at least this; when it needs nothing, it suggests 0.
• Replenishment Trigger: Manual (you click Order), Automatic (Odoo schedules the order itself) or Never (the product is shown but never replenished from the MPS).

Older guides, including Odoo’s own 18.0 documentation, also describe a Maximum to Replenish and a Batch Size on this form. The Odoo 19 documentation dropped both in an August 2026 update, so check your own form before planning around a cap. Click Save.

4. Enter the demand

Each product gets a block of rows: the starting stock in its header, then - Forecasted Demand, - Indirect Demand Forecast (components only: demand that comes from making the products they go into), + Replenishment and = Forecasted Stock. Type the demand you expect into each period.

To start from history instead, click the pencil next to - Forecasted Demand (Suggest Forecasted Demand), choose Based on (Actual Demand, Previous Year, Last 30 Days, Last 3 Months or Last 12 Months), add a percentage such as 110% for ten percent growth, and click Apply.

5. Read the suggestion

• Replenishment = Safety Stock Target − Starting Stock + Forecasted Demand + Indirect Demand Forecast
• Forecasted Stock = Starting Stock − Forecasted Demand − Indirect Demand Forecast + Replenishment

Each period’s forecasted stock becomes the next period’s starting stock. You can overwrite any replenishment cell; a reset button next to it brings the suggestion back.

6. Add the rows you need

From the search bar’s drop-down, add Actual Demand (confirmed sales next to your forecast), Actual Demand Y-1 and Y-2, Indirect Actual Demand, Actual Replenishment and Available to Promise.

7. Order

• Order at the top of the page replenishes every product for the current period.
• Order on a product’s + Replenishment row replenishes that product.
• To do several at once, tick them and use Actions ‣ Order.

The Buy route creates a request for quotation in Purchase ‣ Orders ‣ Requests for Quotation; Manufacture creates a manufacturing order in Manufacturing ‣ Operations ‣ Manufacturing Orders. If the BoM’s Batch Size option (Miscellaneous tab) is ticked, the Odoo 19 code splits automatically created manufacturing orders into orders of that size, and MPS orders go through the same routine.

8. Edit or remove a product

The pencil next to a product’s header opens Edit Production Schedule; everything except Product and Bill of Materials can be changed. To remove a product, tick it and choose Actions ‣ Delete.

MPS and reordering rules

A reordering rule orders when the forecast falls below Min; the MPS plans the same product period by period. Put both on one product and they cover the same need twice, which is why Odoo’s documentation says not to apply reordering rules to MPS products. A split that works:

• MPS: finished products with seasonal or lumpy demand, and components with long lead times.
• Reordering rules: cheap, short-lead components such as screws, labels and cartons. If they arrived in the MPS with a BoM, delete them from the MPS and give them rules. Once the planned manufacturing orders are confirmed, their component needs count in the forecast those rules watch. The reordering rules guide covers the setup.

Worked example: a furniture workshop planning by month

A workshop makes a six-seater dining table. Sales peak in the festive and wedding season, and the solid-wood tabletop panel comes from a supplier with a 45-day lead time. All numbers are illustrative.

The planner sets Monthly with 6 periods and adds the table with its BoM, Route Manufacture, Safety Stock Target 10 and Replenishment Trigger Manual. There are 30 tables in stock, and demand is entered from last year’s sales.

Month	Starting stock	Forecasted demand	Suggested replenishment	Forecasted stock
October	30	40	20	10
November	10	60	60	10
December	10	80	80	10
January	10	30	30	10

• October: 10 − 30 + 40 = 20. The Order button at the top replenishes the current period, so it creates a manufacturing order for 20 tables.
• Components: the panel, legs and hardware kit appear under the table with an Indirect Demand Forecast row, at one panel and four legs per table. Adding Indirect Actual Demand shows how much of that is already backed by confirmed manufacturing orders.
• The long-lead panel: the buyer edits its schedule to Route Buy with the panel supplier as Vendor, gives it its own safety stock target, and reviews its row every month, ordering when a cell turns green.
• The hardware kit: cheap and delivered in two days, so the planner deletes it from the MPS and gives it a reordering rule.

What you should see

• Replenishment cells in green (ready to be replenished), grey (an order exists and matches the suggestion), yellow (ordered less than suggested) or red (ordered more).
• New requests for quotation or manufacturing orders after you click Order.
• Filters such as To Replenish, Replenishment Too Low, Replenishment Too High and Forecast Too Low to find what needs attention.

Troubleshooting

There’s no Master Production Schedule menu. You’re on Community, or the setting wasn’t saved.

Order creates nothing, or the wrong kind of order. Check the route on the product’s schedule and on the product form: Manufacture needs a BoM, Buy needs a vendor on the Purchase tab.

Extra orders keep appearing. A reordering rule is still active on an MPS product. Archive it.

The plan is cluttered with screws and labels. The BoM was selected when the product was added, so every component came in. Delete the ones you don’t want to plan here.

The suggestion is 0 although there is demand. Starting stock already covers demand plus the safety stock target.

The suggestion is bigger than the need. Minimum to Replenish is set. Lower it, or overwrite the cell.

One click created several manufacturing orders. The BoM has a Batch Size ticked on its Miscellaneous tab.

Related setup

• How to set up reordering rules in Odoo 19
• How to set up a bill of materials in Odoo 19
• Manufacturing orders and the production workflow in Odoo
• How to set up work centres and work orders in Odoo 19, to check you have the capacity for the plan
• Planning a seasonal range or long-lead materials and unsure what belongs in the MPS? See Odoo implementation.

Official references

• Odoo 19 documentation: Master production schedule
• Odoo 19 documentation: Reordering rules
• Odoo 19 documentation: Manufacturing product configuration
• Odoo 19 documentation: Lead times

How this guide was checked: menu paths, fields, formulas and Enterprise-only status were checked against the Odoo 19 MPS documentation (compared with the 18.0 and 20.0 versions) and the Manufacturing settings and order-creation code in Odoo 19 in October 2026. The MPS itself is Enterprise code, so its behaviour comes from the documentation only. The worked example is illustrative and wasn’t run on a live database, so there are no screenshots; labels can vary slightly with your installed apps and language.