Make To Stock—Basic Data and Requirements Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Main Exercises

Setting Up the MRP Message Controller and Action Message Configuration

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up a message controller and to configure which MRP action messages will be used.

Windows:
MRP Basic Data

  1. Open the MRP Basic Data window.
  2. Click the MRP Message Controller tab and populate the records. If you see that your user ID is not registered as MRP message controller for planner ID ' * ', create a new record. If your user ID is already registered correctly, you can skip to step 6.
  3. In the User ID field, select the user ID that you currently use. (You can use the List of Values to select the user ID.) 
  4. Since you linked all your parts to planner ' * ' when you created them, you will now need to link your user ID to this planner. To do this, in the Planner ID field, select planner ID ' * '.
  5. Save the record.
  6. Click the MRP Message Configuration tab and set the focus to the Planner ID field.
  7. Populate the window. If your user ID does not have the MRP message configuration setup for planner ID ' * ', create a new record. If the user ID has the correct setup, skip to step 11.
  8. Note that the User ID field defaults to your current user and cannot be modified.
  9. Set the planner ID to ' * '.
  10. Save the record.  After the record is saved, all available MRP action messages will automatically populate the table.
  11. Select all the available messages either by selecting the Generate Flag check box in each line or by right-clicking and then clicking Select All. Selecting all messages in this table enables you to later  query all available messages when you review the MRP process results. If you select only some of the messages, only those selected message will be visible to you. 
  12. Save your changes.

Setting Up the PMRP Message Controller and Action Message Configuration

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up a message controller and to configure which PMRP action messages will be used.

Windows:
PMRP Basic Data

  1. Open the PMRP Basic Data window.
  2. Click the PMRP Message Controller tab and populate the records. If you see that your user ID is not registered as PMRP message controller for planner ID ' * ', create a new record. If your user ID is already registered correctly, you can skip to step 6.
  3. In the User ID field, select the user ID that you currently use. (You can use the List of Values to select the user ID.) 
  4. Since you linked all your parts to planner ' * ' when you created them, you will now need to link your user ID to this planner. To do this, in the Planner ID field, select planner ID ' * '.
  5. Save the record.
  6. Click the PMRP Message Configuration tab and set the focus to the Planner ID field.
  7. Populate the window. If your user ID does not have the PMRP message configuration setup for planner ID ' * ', create a new record. If the user ID has the correct setup, skip to step 11.
  8. Note that the User ID field defaults to your current user and cannot be modified.
  9. Set the planner ID to ' * '.
  10. Save the record.  After the record is saved, all available PMRP action messages will automatically populate the table.
  11. Select all the available messages either by selecting the Generate Flag check box in each line or by right-clicking and then clicking Select All. Selecting all messages in this table enables you to later query all available messages when you review the PMRP process results. If you select only some of the messages, only those selected message will be visible to you. 
  12. Save your changes.

Setting Up Default Values for Project Planned Netting Groups

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up automatic creation of project planned netting groups (PNGs) and to define the default settings of PNGs when they are first created.

Windows:
PMRP Basic Data/ PNG Default Settings

  1. Open the PMRP Basic Datawindow and click the PNG Default Settings tab.
  2. Select the Create Project PNG Automatically check box. This indicates that a PNG is to be created automatically for a project when the project is created.
  3. Select the Automatic MTR check box.
  4. In the Within PNG In/Out, Between PNG In and Between PNG Out lists, select Allowed Manual.
  5. In the Borrow/Payback lists, select Not Required.
  6. Save the information.