Forecast Consumption of Configured Components

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John



As you already know, forecast will only get consumed if a sales order is
entered for that part/customer. So when driving parts that would not
appear on a sales order, i.e. module of a finished product it would not
get consumed.



MPS on the other hand works very much like forecasting but takes any
type of demand into consideration, rather than just sales orders.

If there is a forecast and MPS in the system for a part, the MPS takes
president.



The only down side of MPS is that you cannot make it customer specific
and it is does not store consumed values.



Gary



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of John Warshawer
Sent: 05 October 2009 05:21
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Forecast Consumption of Configured Components





Thanks Gary, but I'm not sure I understand. If I drive demand with a
Master
Scheduler Order, then the Sales Order is entered, won't MRP plan for
both
(thus over-planning)? Would I need to reduce the MPS for each module as
the
Sales Orders are taken?

John

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of
Gary Parfrey
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 11:27 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Forecast Consumption of Configured Components

Use the MPS instead of the forecasting at the modular level.

Gary

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Subject: [Vantage] Forecast Consumption of Configured Components

We are on Epicor 9.04.504, but this issue may not have changed since
version
8.

We can build over 10,000,000 possibly product configurations with
several
hundred modules. Forecasting is done at the module level. The
configurator
"builds up" the selected modules into an end-item configuration for the
customer. The issue is: How can we consume the forecasts of the modules
that we entered? I am concerned that, without Forecast Consumption at
the
module level, MRP will plan for both our Forecast AND our open sales
orders.

How do other companies that are heavily dependent on the configurator do
this?

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Has anyone been successful at automating the toggling of the PO Release Lock Date and Lock QTY by way of a BPM or BAM in 8.03.40X?

I've read that there has been some success in doing it through a customization, but I personally would prefer to avoid that in place of more update friendly BPMs/BAMs.

Has anyone had any luck accomplishing this?

Thanks!
-Austin
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We are auto locking the LockQty in 8.03.405a BPM, *but* you need 4GL developer license

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "kasa_it" <it@...> wrote:
>
> Has anyone been successful at automating the toggling of the PO Release Lock Date and Lock QTY by way of a BPM or BAM in 8.03.40X?
>
> I've read that there has been some success in doing it through a customization, but I personally would prefer to avoid that in place of more update friendly BPMs/BAMs.
>
> Has anyone had any luck accomplishing this?
>
> Thanks!
> -Austin
>
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Is the developer license for progress?

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: bw2868bond [mailto:bwalker@...]
Sent: September 29, 2009 4:50 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Automate Lock Date and Lock QTY on PO Release




We are auto locking the LockQty in 8.03.405a BPM, *but* you need 4GL
developer license

--- In vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com,
"kasa_it" <it@...> wrote:
>
> Has anyone been successful at automating the toggling of the PO Release
Lock Date and Lock QTY by way of a BPM or BAM in 8.03.40X?
>
> I've read that there has been some success in doing it through a
customization, but I personally would prefer to avoid that in place of more
update friendly BPMs/BAMs.
>
> Has anyone had any luck accomplishing this?
>
> Thanks!
> -Austin
>







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Yes, the Progress developer license.

Because the LockQty and LockDate flags are stored in the ComXRef table *and* the BPM actions that affect the fields in the tt data are so unreliable on those fields, I had to resort to actually creating the ComXRef record. The lib/UpdateTableBuffer.p would not work because the record did not exist to be updated....

It is a real shame that those fields aren't really stored in the PORel table - not even in 9.04.504.

I am afraid if they tried to move those flags, it would adversly affect MRP functioning.

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Steve_E" <vantage@...> wrote:
>
> Is the developer license for progress?
>
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bw2868bond [mailto:bwalker@...]
> Sent: September 29, 2009 4:50 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Automate Lock Date and Lock QTY on PO Release
>
>
>
>
> We are auto locking the LockQty in 8.03.405a BPM, *but* you need 4GL
> developer license
>
> --- In vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com,
> "kasa_it" <it@> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone been successful at automating the toggling of the PO Release
> Lock Date and Lock QTY by way of a BPM or BAM in 8.03.40X?
> >
> > I've read that there has been some success in doing it through a
> customization, but I personally would prefer to avoid that in place of more
> update friendly BPMs/BAMs.
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck accomplishing this?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Austin
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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We are on Epicor 9.04.504, but this issue may not have changed since version
8.



We can build over 10,000,000 possibly product configurations with several
hundred modules. Forecasting is done at the module level. The configurator
"builds up" the selected modules into an end-item configuration for the
customer. The issue is: How can we consume the forecasts of the modules
that we entered? I am concerned that, without Forecast Consumption at the
module level, MRP will plan for both our Forecast AND our open sales orders.




How do other companies that are heavily dependent on the configurator do
this?





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Use the MPS instead of the forecasting at the modular level.



Gary



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Email Lists
Sent: 04 October 2009 17:10
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Forecast Consumption of Configured Components





We are on Epicor 9.04.504, but this issue may not have changed since
version
8.

We can build over 10,000,000 possibly product configurations with
several
hundred modules. Forecasting is done at the module level. The
configurator
"builds up" the selected modules into an end-item configuration for the
customer. The issue is: How can we consume the forecasts of the modules
that we entered? I am concerned that, without Forecast Consumption at
the
module level, MRP will plan for both our Forecast AND our open sales
orders.

How do other companies that are heavily dependent on the configurator do
this?

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Thanks Gary, but I'm not sure I understand. If I drive demand with a Master
Scheduler Order, then the Sales Order is entered, won't MRP plan for both
(thus over-planning)? Would I need to reduce the MPS for each module as the
Sales Orders are taken?



John



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Gary Parfrey
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 11:27 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Forecast Consumption of Configured Components





Use the MPS instead of the forecasting at the modular level.

Gary

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf
Of Email Lists
Sent: 04 October 2009 17:10
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Vantage] Forecast Consumption of Configured Components

We are on Epicor 9.04.504, but this issue may not have changed since
version
8.

We can build over 10,000,000 possibly product configurations with
several
hundred modules. Forecasting is done at the module level. The
configurator
"builds up" the selected modules into an end-item configuration for the
customer. The issue is: How can we consume the forecasts of the modules
that we entered? I am concerned that, without Forecast Consumption at
the
module level, MRP will plan for both our Forecast AND our open sales
orders.

How do other companies that are heavily dependent on the configurator do
this?

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MPS trumps all
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: "John Warshawer" <jwarshawer@...>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 21:21:21
To: <vantage@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Forecast Consumption of Configured Components

Thanks Gary, but I'm not sure I understand. If I drive demand with a Master
Scheduler Order, then the Sales Order is entered, won't MRP plan for both
(thus over-planning)? Would I need to reduce the MPS for each module as the
Sales Orders are taken?



John



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Gary Parfrey
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 11:27 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Forecast Consumption of Configured Components





Use the MPS instead of the forecasting at the modular level.

Gary

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf
Of Email Lists
Sent: 04 October 2009 17:10
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Vantage] Forecast Consumption of Configured Components

We are on Epicor 9.04.504, but this issue may not have changed since
version
8.

We can build over 10,000,000 possibly product configurations with
several
hundred modules. Forecasting is done at the module level. The
configurator
"builds up" the selected modules into an end-item configuration for the
customer. The issue is: How can we consume the forecasts of the modules
that we entered? I am concerned that, without Forecast Consumption at
the
module level, MRP will plan for both our Forecast AND our open sales
orders.

How do other companies that are heavily dependent on the configurator do
this?

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