Running MRP to Create Requisitions—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.

Basic Data Setup

Inventory Location

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to create an inventory location for the receipt of standard planned parts to inventory.

Windows:
Inventory Locations

  1. If you have not already done so, create the following new inventory location:
Location No Warehouse Location Name Location Group
STD A Std parts PICK

  1. Save your changes.

General exercise for Entering Inventory Location

Required Data

Running the Gross Requirements Calculation (GRC)

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize you with the data that must be in place before you can do the the exercises below.

  1. Run the gross requirements calculation in order for MRP to see the demand for standard planned items in a project product structure.

General exercise for Running the Gross Requirements Calculation

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to run MRP to create shop order or purchase order requisitions for standard planned project items.

Windows:
Inventory Part In Stock
Perform site MRP
 Background Jobs
 Receive Inventory Part
MRP Part Information

Running MRP to Create Shop Order or Purchase Requisition 

  1. Open the Inventory Part In Stock window.
  2. Query for the following standard planned parts at your site: 20–120 (Cylinder Head 1600), 20–130 (Electric System 1600), and 20–140 (Cooling System 1600). Make sure that you have none of any of these in stock.
  3. Open the Perform site MRP window, and run MRP for your site. Note that this is a background job.
  4. Open the Background Jobs window. Once it is populated, verify that the status of the corresponding job is Warning. This only means that the MRP run has been completed, which you can also view in the job details.
  5. Open the MRP Part Information window. Make sure that one or more shop orders and purchase requisitions have been created for the standard planned project items to cover the demands. You can query either the parts or the site, or both. 
  6. Click the Gross Requirements tab. Make sure that MRP has created a supply for every demand coming from IFS/Project Delivery.

Note: For this exercise, to avoid the time involved in going through the purchasing and manufacturing of the standard planned items, you will receive them directly into stock, with the correct quantity needed to satisfy the project delivery demand. 

  1. Open the Receive Inventory Part window. 
  2. Query for parts 20–120, 20–130, and 20–140 at your site.
  3. Receive the quantity of 2 for part 20–120, and 1 each for parts 20–130 and 20–140 on location STD, which you created in the basic data setup exercise above. You must do the receipts individually. 
  4. Save your changes.