Can someone give me some best practices on Production scheduling in 2013. how best to create and recreate them?
use page 5530 “Item Availability by Timeline”.
follow https://community.dynamics.com/nav/f/34/t/113049.aspx
you can also use addons, e.g.:
http://www.netronic.com/solutions/microsoft-dynamics-nav-2013-2009r2/overview.html
could the planning worksheet also be used for this function?
yes you can use the planning worksheet to create the needed orders. it works multilevel and with forecast. but it’s not an graphical tool.
for details follow https://community.dynamics.com/nav/f/34/t/143665.aspx
a mor advanced tool is the orderbase megaboard:
http://www.orderbase.de/oc/modul/nav/megaboard_dynamics_nav/?lang=en
Well writing up the orders does anyone have a good way of writing up orders as far as a best practices of what and when to write up for manufacturing?