Generate PO Suggestions - Number of Processes

Has anyone found that by increasing the ‘Number of Processes’ to greater than 1 helped with performance when running the Generate PO Suggestions process? What is your current settings set at for the ‘Number of Processes’? We are seeing variations in processing time anywhere from 10 minutes to 45 minutes.

We tested this in E9 at each interval on a big MRP run and found that there was a big difference from 1 to 2 and noticeable, but diminishing returns, until 4. After 4 there was not much change.

Now it runs at 4 and 4. You results may vary and it depends on how many resources you have on your server.

Ross

Do you run the Generate PO Suggestions process? And what is your settings? We run both the MRP and Generate PO Suggestions processes.

When we wun Gen PO Suggestions ONLY, we use 3 processes. It takes about 20 minutes for it to run during the day (aounrd 11am).

I have MRP running at 7 processes each and it takes a full regen 1 hour to run the 4 plants. It just depends on the resources you have on the server. After 7, I dont see any improvements from my testing on my server.

You’ll probably see diminishing returns once you exceed the number of processors on your app server. Also, make sure you don’t run so many processes that it fills up your app server pool; and don’t forget to include user and automated processes in your calculation.