Perform Planning Network MRP

Explanation

This activity is used to calculate the supply and demand for MRP (Material Requirement Planning) parts (including multi-site planned parts ) based on shop orders, customer orders, etc, for a particular planning network. Parts that are sourced from an internal supply site in the planning network will be a multi-site planned part. (It can be supplied externally as well.) Once the multi-site BOM's sourcing rules are defined, multi-site planning can be performed. The multi-site BOMs are defined regardless of the planning networks. The system creates MRP planned  orders for fulfilling demands, such as purchase or shop order requisitions. The system also offers suggestions on planning orders for optimal manufacturing considering material availability. MRP generates the distribution orders for the demands on the sites in the planning network. Manufactured and acquired split data  in the Inventory Part/Planning tab window will be considered when creating the supplies by MRP. 

Only the sites to which the users has access, can be added or removed from a planning network. A planning manager will enter planning network information into the system. Planners and managers can review this information.

Prerequisites

Note: MRP does not process parts with planning methods B - Order Point Planning, C - Replenishment Level, M - Manufacturing Cell Part; or N - Next Level Demand. 

System Effects

Window

Perform Planning Network MRP

Related Window Descriptions

Perform Planning Network MRP

Procedure

You can execute multi-site MRP either by direct execution (Procedure A) or by scheduling the task to execute as a background job (Procedure B).

Procedure A:

  1. Open the Perform Planning Network MRP window.
  2. Enter the planning network for which you want to run multi-site MRP. Click List to select from the available planning networks. If you leave the field blank, the MRP process is run for all planning networks to which you have access.
  3. Select the date on which you want the MRP process to execute. The current date is used by default.
  4. Optionally, you can stop the MRP process when any error occurs.
  5. Optionally, you can add 1-day lead-time back-off to planned receipts. 
  6. If you do not want to create messages for phantom part dependant demands, you can select the Don't create messages for phantom part dependant demand check box.
  7. If you want the MRP process to create safety stock replenishment orders on the MRP run date, select thePlan Safety Stock Receipt on MRP Run Date check box. If it is not selected, safety stock replenishment orders will be created on the event date itself.
  8. If you want the MRP process to capture the planned alternate parts, you can do so by selecting the Plan Alternate Components check box.
  9. If you want to get the default values defined by the administrator in the Database Tasks window, click Default.
  10. To run the multi-site MRP process, click OK

Procedure B:

Click Schedule to open the New Database Task Schedule window. Set the scheduling parameters as desired and save. Scheduled tasks can be seen in Scheduled Database Tasks window