Does anyone have any good tips for handling last minute, temporary outsourcing? I usually will get a stack of prints and quantities that went down to the shop to be made, and they say they want to outsource them. So the parts aren’t really purchased, because most of the time we make them. Right now I have some dashboards set up to get me data for DMT’s to remove assembly sequences and add them as materials, but it really only works one part number at a time due to generating a valid MTL sequence (still way faster than manually, but still…). Plus, even if the part is put on the job as a material, without the master being set to purchased, it won’t create purchase suggestion. I can change them to purchased, but then when does it get changed back, it messes up other checks I have in place for making sure the method is set correctly etc etc.
Does anyone else deal with this? How do you handle it?
We see this quite often. In this case, we change the Part Type to Purchased on the Sites tab and leave the Part Header page as Manufactured. That way, MRP will generate a PO Suggestion for the parts and we also keep the method. We can then identify these in a dashboard and change them back once the overload issue has been resolved.
So I’m trying to get this to work (create purchase suggestions) I did not set the parts as purchased before I create the material lines, and there are suggestions for job sitting in time phase, but no PO suggestions. I’ve run generate purchase suggestions and none of them are showing up. I even set everything on my test part to purchased, still nothing. Now I am running scheduling on the job again with everything set to purchase to see if it will generate a PO suggestion.