Group poll on MRP

We run a Net change during the afternoon each day (approximately 15 minutes to run)Â to accomodate a customer with a 3 day turnaround. We also run a Reg on schedule at 1 AM when system isn't used (approximately 90 minutes). The Regen during the week is for 90 days out and 6 months during the weekend run.
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Our scheduling/supply people run it using 2 schedulers.
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We run the Net change at the same time each day with the agreement that no PO's or sales orders are enterred during that time. Normally we do not see much of a downgrade in response time when it is running.
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Good morning all!

We run Vantage 8.03 and are just implementing MRP for one of our plants. I am curious to see what with what frequency other companies run MRP. Weekly? Daily? If you use MRP, is the ability to run MRP under the "ownership" of Supply Chain or IT? For instance, do you allow your users to run MRP during the business day at their leisure or is this a function relegated to IT? If the users are allowed to run MRP during business hours, have you had to make specical concessions or configuration changes to compensate for the drain on resources or a potential drop in performance for other users?

Thank you in advance for any insite you guys can offer!

Aimee Grebe
Manager of Enterprise Systems
TIMCO Aerosystems
We run it a few times a day during working hours and it doesnt seem to slow anything down noticably.
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We are on 9.04.505c

From: aimee.grebe <aimee.grebe@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 23 January 2012, 14:37
Subject: [Vantage] Group poll on MRP


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Good morning all!

We run Vantage 8.03 and are just implementing MRP for one of our plants. I am curious to see what with what frequency other companies run MRP. Weekly? Daily? If you use MRP, is the ability to run MRP under the "ownership" of Supply Chain or IT? For instance, do you allow your users to run MRP during the business day at their leisure or is this a function relegated to IT? If the users are allowed to run MRP during business hours, have you had to make specical concessions or configuration changes to compensate for the drain on resources or a potential drop in performance for other users?

Thank you in advance for any insite you guys can offer!

Aimee Grebe
Manager of Enterprise Systems
TIMCO Aerosystems




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Thanks Chris? Do you run Net Change or Full Regen?
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Aimee


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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Group poll on MRP


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We run it a few times a day during working hours and it doesnt seem to slow anything down noticably.
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We are on 9.04.505c

From: aimee.grebe <aimee.grebe@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 23 January 2012, 14:37
Subject: [Vantage] Group poll on MRP

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Good morning all!

We run Vantage 8.03 and are just implementing MRP for one of our plants. I am curious to see what with what frequency other companies run MRP. Weekly? Daily? If you use MRP, is the ability to run MRP under the "ownership" of Supply Chain or IT? For instance, do you allow your users to run MRP during the business day at their leisure or is this a function relegated to IT? If the users are allowed to run MRP during business hours, have you had to make specical concessions or configuration changes to compensate for the drain on resources or a potential drop in performance for other users?

Thank you in advance for any insite you guys can offer!

Aimee Grebe
Manager of Enterprise Systems
TIMCO Aerosystems

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Daily (nightly/off-hours). Net change. IT owns it.... MRP hits and locks too many tables and is too resource intensive on a transactional system.... especially with 50+ users, service connect coupled with the PLM process constantly running and multi-site WAN db latency.. to run during normal biz hours IMO. Of course, that’s all just a guess on your system setup.

From: aimee.grebe
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:37 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Group poll on MRP


Good morning all!

We run Vantage 8.03 and are just implementing MRP for one of our plants. I am curious to see what with what frequency other companies run MRP. Weekly? Daily? If you use MRP, is the ability to run MRP under the "ownership" of Supply Chain or IT? For instance, do you allow your users to run MRP during the business day at their leisure or is this a function relegated to IT? If the users are allowed to run MRP during business hours, have you had to make specical concessions or configuration changes to compensate for the drain on resources or a potential drop in performance for other users?

Thank you in advance for any insite you guys can offer!

Aimee Grebe
Manager of Enterprise Systems
TIMCO Aerosystems




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We run a regenerative MRP daily - out for about 4 months every day except 1 which we run for as far as the orders exist (could be over a year).

We have this set to run as a scheduled task overnight as this is the best time for us - all orders are entered and after Shop Floor have clocked off at 10pm at night.

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> We run it a few times a day during working hours and it doesnt seem to slow anything down noticably.
> ÂÂ
> We are on 9.04.505c
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> From: aimee.grebe <aimee.grebe@...>
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, 23 January 2012, 14:37
> Subject: [Vantage] Group poll on MRP
>
>
> ÂÂ
> Good morning all!
>
> We run Vantage 8.03 and are just implementing MRP for one of our plants. I am curious to see what with what frequency other companies run MRP. Weekly? Daily? If you use MRP, is the ability to run MRP under the "ownership" of Supply Chain or IT? For instance, do you allow your users to run MRP during the business day at their leisure or is this a function relegated to IT? If the users are allowed to run MRP during business hours, have you had to make specical concessions or configuration changes to compensate for the drain on resources or a potential drop in performance for other users?
>
> Thank you in advance for any insite you guys can offer!
>
> Aimee Grebe
> Manager of Enterprise Systems
> TIMCO Aerosystems
>
>
>
>
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Wow....what an accurate guess of our system set-up. Ever consider a career in palm reading?


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To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Group poll on MRP


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Daily (nightly/off-hours). Net change. IT owns it.... MRP hits and locks too many tables and is too resource intensive on a transactional system.... especially with 50+ users, service connect coupled with the PLM process constantly running and multi-site WAN db latency.. to run during normal biz hours IMO. Of course, that’s all just a guess on your system setup.

From: aimee.grebe
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:37 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Group poll on MRP

Good morning all!

We run Vantage 8.03 and are just implementing MRP for one of our plants. I am curious to see what with what frequency other companies run MRP. Weekly? Daily? If you use MRP, is the ability to run MRP under the "ownership" of Supply Chain or IT? For instance, do you allow your users to run MRP during the business day at their leisure or is this a function relegated to IT? If the users are allowed to run MRP during business hours, have you had to make specical concessions or configuration changes to compensate for the drain on resources or a potential drop in performance for other users?

Thank you in advance for any insite you guys can offer!

Aimee Grebe
Manager of Enterprise Systems
TIMCO Aerosystems

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Early hours of the morning daily on a schedule as during working hours
it can cause performance issues, we run a Full Regen
Vantage 8.03.405a
Mark LawrenceTeagle Machinery Ltd
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "aimee.grebe" <aimee.grebe@...> wrote:
>
> Good morning all!
>
> We run Vantage 8.03 and are just implementing MRP for one of our
plants. I am curious to see what with what frequency other companies run
MRP. Weekly? Daily? If you use MRP, is the ability to run MRP under the
"ownership" of Supply Chain or IT? For instance, do you allow your users
to run MRP during the business day at their leisure or is this a
function relegated to IT? If the users are allowed to run MRP during
business hours, have you had to make specical concessions or
configuration changes to compensate for the drain on resources or a
potential drop in performance for other users?
>
> Thank you in advance for any insite you guys can offer!
>
> Aimee Grebe
> Manager of Enterprise Systems
> TIMCO Aerosystems
>



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We are on Epicor 9.04.507A and run MRP nightly on weekdays (M - F) at 11:15
p.m. and at 3:00 a.m. on Sunday. MRP is run by the IT department because
purchasing and scheduling is limited when MRP is running. If MRP needs to
run during working hours, special arrangements are made with the IT
department.



Beth Rye

IT Director

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
aimee.grebe
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:38 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Group poll on MRP





Good morning all!

We run Vantage 8.03 and are just implementing MRP for one of our plants. I
am curious to see what with what frequency other companies run MRP. Weekly?
Daily? If you use MRP, is the ability to run MRP under the "ownership" of
Supply Chain or IT? For instance, do you allow your users to run MRP during
the business day at their leisure or is this a function relegated to IT? If
the users are allowed to run MRP during business hours, have you had to make
specical concessions or configuration changes to compensate for the drain on
resources or a potential drop in performance for other users?

Thank you in advance for any insite you guys can offer!

Aimee Grebe
Manager of Enterprise Systems
TIMCO Aerosystems





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Good Day Aimee:

We run Process-MRP and then Process-Multi--Level-Pegging Monday
through Friday Night at 10:00 PM ( finishes at 4:30 AM - MRP and Pegging
take about 3 hours each). We generate about 25-50 PO suggestions, and
10-30 JOB's everyday.

In the olden days, running MRP during the day could cause file
corruption since users would be on the system. That is probably no
longer true, but running during the day from a "Business-Process" point
of view could cause confusion since non-finalized transaction ( keypunch
errors) can cause errant planned JOBs or PO's and 'interpretation' can
be harder. Finally, running on a schedule allows everyone to know when
they need to finalize things before MRP re-plans them and changes
control numbers, dates, etc.

I suppose Production-Control 'owns' MRP, but in realty, a
non-standard run is not done until all are consulted. The original
schedule shifted around a little because of input from all. Runnig MRP
does not slow our system down becasue we oversized the hardware, and
users are limited to what they can do until it is finished so they are
on the system less.

Sun is on 9.05.605 since 10/2/11 - SQL-Unidata
Live on 9.05.601B since 11/29/10
Sun was previously on M2K (Manage-2000) 7.0 SP 5 (Informix)


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Sun Automation Group
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410-329-3564 FAX
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Of aimee.grebe
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:38 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Group poll on MRP




Good morning all!

We run Vantage 8.03 and are just implementing MRP for one of our plants.
I am curious to see what with what frequency other companies run MRP.
Weekly? Daily? If you use MRP, is the ability to run MRP under the
"ownership" of Supply Chain or IT? For instance, do you allow your users
to run MRP during the business day at their leisure or is this a
function relegated to IT? If the users are allowed to run MRP during
business hours, have you had to make specical concessions or
configuration changes to compensate for the drain on resources or a
potential drop in performance for other users?

Thank you in advance for any insite you guys can offer!

Aimee Grebe
Manager of Enterprise Systems
TIMCO Aerosystems






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How MRP has been addressed at one site I know:

- MRP, Full Regen - Run weekly or as needed - per manufacturing
- Generate PO Suggestions, Net Change - Run Daily

I would not advocate this as a model for any other users. I just find their MRP story intersting. They are a capitol equipment manufacturer with many of their own unique circumstances.

This is a small shop with limited personnel who are wearing a lot of different hats. The person most experienced with MRP left the company shortly before going live on Vantage. MRP on the old system was significantly different from Vantage. There were a few consultants to visit and review MRP with the implementation team. Nobody received MRP training. MRP was part of the pilot process. At the time it was viewed as another responsibility. No AMM & no finite scheduling.

When finally going live, all unwanted things related to Vantage were temporarily assigned to IT. They set MRP up on a schedule.
Net change (nightly) and a full regen (weekends).

After a few months, manufacturing had a much better understanding of the impact MRP had on their department. They took it over and removed the schedules and began running MRP manually, much less frequently.

Running MRP infrequently lead to "feast or famine" for Purchasing.
Now they are interested in evening things out. So there is now a tug of war for control over MRP.

The president is showing a new interest in MRP too.
Especially in dates for sales and customers.
Top level assemblies due dates are partially estimated.

In general, MRP as run now:
- Dues date values maintain the correct build sequence.
- Due date values for component parts are OK.
- Due date values become marginal the higher the level of an assembly.
- Global Scheduling is never run by itself

Here is some more background on the enterprise:
They have two main demand sources, service part sales (daily) and system sales (tend to be monthly events)

- Service part sales
---- The majority are stocked, min/max parts
---- Generate PO suggestions

- System Sales
---- Capitol equipment
------- made up of stocked parts and nonstock sub-assemblies.
------- MRP full regen is run.


One thing everybody likes is the schedule for Generate PO Suggestions. It is still run daily on an automatic schedule.


--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "aimee.grebe" <aimee.grebe@...> wrote:
>
> Good morning all!
>
> We run Vantage 8.03 and are just implementing MRP for one of our plants. I am curious to see what with what frequency other companies run MRP. Weekly? Daily? If you use MRP, is the ability to run MRP under the "ownership" of Supply Chain or IT? For instance, do you allow your users to run MRP during the business day at their leisure or is this a function relegated to IT? If the users are allowed to run MRP during business hours, have you had to make specical concessions or configuration changes to compensate for the drain on resources or a potential drop in performance for other users?
>
> Thank you in advance for any insite you guys can offer!
>
> Aimee Grebe
> Manager of Enterprise Systems
> TIMCO Aerosystems
>
Here at Diba MRP runs automagically (full, not regen) every night at 10:30 (nobody is on the system, and backup has completed). It takes about 3 hours to run. Since we upgraded our server I CAN run it during the day, but it is a noticeable slowdown. Purchasing does not have access to run it, it's just me.

Ernie Lowell
Diba Industries



--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "aimee.grebe" <aimee.grebe@...> wrote:
>
> Good morning all!
>
> We run Vantage 8.03 and are just implementing MRP for one of our plants. I am curious to see what with what frequency other companies run MRP. Weekly? Daily? If you use MRP, is the ability to run MRP under the "ownership" of Supply Chain or IT? For instance, do you allow your users to run MRP during the business day at their leisure or is this a function relegated to IT? If the users are allowed to run MRP during business hours, have you had to make specical concessions or configuration changes to compensate for the drain on resources or a potential drop in performance for other users?
>
> Thank you in advance for any insite you guys can offer!
>
> Aimee Grebe
> Manager of Enterprise Systems
> TIMCO Aerosystems
>