If you are just experiencing this problem since upgrading to the .803I patch and demand conditions similar to what you describe occurred before the "I" patch (AND the previous version's MRP handled them appropriately) - it is an "I" patch bug.
All this is based upon the assumption that the Part in question has it's Plant Min O/H (and/or Safety) set to zero (as Min O/H or Safety > 0 would drive MRP to suggest additional time phased Unfirmed Jobs to meet the customer demand AND have you end up with the Min O/H+Safety quantity covered).
Even though the Part IS a Stocked Part, I still suggest linking the 50 pc Job to the 5 (10 pc each) Sales Order/Line item/Delivery schedules.
That shouldn't be necessary based upon the scenario you presented - but the results of this little (harmless) experiment might reveal further clues as to why MRP is misbehaving on .803I.
That might help you to resolve it internally or provide Epicor with additional useful info if you decide it is a bug and you report it to Epicor.
vandertop26 <josh_vtop@...> wrote: As I mentioned (way at the end of my original post) all of our
manufacturing is make to stock. The part is a stock part, the sales
orders are not marked as make direct and the demand links on the jobs
are to inventory, not the sales order. All 50 parts (including the
first 10) are made to and shipped from inventory.
All this is based upon the assumption that the Part in question has it's Plant Min O/H (and/or Safety) set to zero (as Min O/H or Safety > 0 would drive MRP to suggest additional time phased Unfirmed Jobs to meet the customer demand AND have you end up with the Min O/H+Safety quantity covered).
Even though the Part IS a Stocked Part, I still suggest linking the 50 pc Job to the 5 (10 pc each) Sales Order/Line item/Delivery schedules.
That shouldn't be necessary based upon the scenario you presented - but the results of this little (harmless) experiment might reveal further clues as to why MRP is misbehaving on .803I.
That might help you to resolve it internally or provide Epicor with additional useful info if you decide it is a bug and you report it to Epicor.
vandertop26 <josh_vtop@...> wrote: As I mentioned (way at the end of my original post) all of our
manufacturing is make to stock. The part is a stock part, the sales
orders are not marked as make direct and the demand links on the jobs
are to inventory, not the sales order. All 50 parts (including the
first 10) are made to and shipped from inventory.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Smith" <CSmith@...> wrote:
>
> Your intent is now to make all 50 at one time (10 tied to the demand of
> the sales order with 40 placed into stock for future releases). Now
> that you have firmed up the job, you have a decision to make. Update the
> sales order releases 2-5 by changing the make direct flag or change the
> job demand by removing the make to stock and add the demand of the 2-5
> releases. MRP needs to know what you have decided. Right now it thinks
> you want to do an over run and stick it into inventory, but you still
> want to create jobs to cover the other releases because the part is a
> non-stock part.
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> Charlie Smith
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> Smith Business Services / 2W Technologies LLC
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> www.vistaconsultant.com <http://www.vistaconsultant.com/> /
> www.2WTech.com
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> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of vandertop26
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:37 AM
> Subject: [Vantage] MRP & Scheduling
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>
> I have the following scenario:
> -A sales order for multiple releases of the same part (for example 5
> releases, 10 parts per release, all 1 week apart) -MRP runs and suggests
> 5 jobs (one for each release) all scheduled 1 week apart - our
> manufacturing desires to build all 50 parts at one time to save on setup
> costs, etc. so the first job quantity is modified from the suggested 10
> parts to the desired 50 parts. This job quantity modification will
> produce the total required parts (5 releases of 10 parts = a total of 50
> parts). The job is firmed, scheduled to meet the first release
> requirements, engineering & released. - material procurement and
> manufacturing floor scheduling is not a problem - The problem is that
> when MRP runs again there are job suggestions for the releases 2 through
> 5 again. Basically ignoring that there will be existing stock available
> at the release date due to the extra quantity added to the first job.
>
> Background Info:
> -We recently installed the "I" patch to bring us up to 8.03.305I
> -All of our production parts are built to stock and we then ship from
> stock
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