Hi Fam,
MRP is driving us crazy!
We have PO 23840 for a part due 4/20, where we expected a postpone suggestion to 07/01, since our demand for this part dropped for Q1. Instead of a postponement, we are seeing an Increase for this to ostensibly cover us through October.
Parameters for this part/PO:
120 DOS
120 Lead time
NO LOCKS (on quantity or date)
Additionally, at the time of approving the original PO, we have a 90 Day Reschedule Delta for both In and Out, but reverted it to 0. This did not change the suggestion.
I also want to note we recreated this manually in our test environment (with the Deltas removed PRIOR to creating the PO, with the hypothesis that maybe the deltas are locked in at the time of PO creation) and still seem to see the same results.
In testing, we also completely removed this PO from the system, and ran MRP. The suggestion came in as expected - for 07/01.
I believe I understand why the increase suggestion is there (since it’s tying itself to the available PO within the lead time), but in theory, neither quantity would be needed before 07/01.
I am more concerned about this as a bigger issue that may lead to us inadvertently overbuying when we had the opportunity to catch the overbuy early enough with MRP.
Any thoughts as to why this could be happening?
