Trying to wrap my head around how new PO suggestions run for safety stock. I have a part that’s set to go below both minimum and safety stock, however the new PO suggestion sets the due date out to the lead time of the part rather than replenishing safety stock.
Was a good thing to look at, thanks for the idea. There’s probably some kind of setting somewhere that’s messing with the urgent planning settings. I’ve been poking around through the site/class/part setup but haven’t had any luck tracking it down
Is your Urgent Planning Vendor different than your standard Vendor? I haven’t used this functionality in quite a long time, but as a test you might want to try a DIFFERENT VendorID for Urgent Planning and see if that makes a difference (and if so it’s a bug that should be reported).
If your sales order isn’t for 2 days from now, does it calculate correctly? Since you’re technically not going to run out, the safety stock did it’s job and prevented you from an outage. And if the lead time is correct, you can’t get it there any sooner. (and if the lead time isn’t correct, then well, lie to the system, it will lie back to you)
edit: I suppose this is a question about the urgent planning, not so much the normal lead time.
Right, it’s more about the urgent planning. The other odd thing is that the initial PO suggestion is to order at lead time, and then the next time we run suggestions it tells us to expedite the PO we just placed. I’d hope that it would just give us the expedited date in the first place
further down the troubleshooting path… if you use a different vendor, does your PO suggestion show the other vendor? If not, then MRP isn’t seeing the Urgent Planning stuff and that should be reported as a bug.
Suggestions are showing the normal vendor instead of the urgent planning vendor, so it’s ignoring the urgent planning parameters for some reason. I can go the epicare route to see if they can identify the issue
