No Make to direct - Job

Kinetic ERP
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Hello Everyone,

I created a sales order without the “Make to Direct” option and ran the MRP, but the system did not create a job. Our demand will be the sales order (without “Make to Direct”), and when we run the MRP, a job should be created. Is there an option in Epicor to achieve this?

Thank you for your help

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If the line/release is NOT Make Direct, then the system is assuming it will ship from Stock.

If the Part has quantity on-hand, you won’t see a job suggestion.

If the Part does not have stock, or if the order will cause the on hand qty to drop below a minimum stocking level you should then see a suggestion for warehouse job.

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Is there an approved revision for the part in question? Is the Process MRP checkbox checked on the PartPlant record? Did you get a change suggestion instead of an unfirm job? Can you make a job manually for the same part?

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Is there an approved revision for the part in question?
No, Part does not have approved revision. Because its a configured part.

Is the Process MRP checkbox checked on the PartPlant record?
Yes,
Did you get a change suggestion instead of an unfirm job?
I do not see any suggestion.
Can you make a job manually for the same part?
No, its giving an error “Part Revision record not available.”

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Configured Parts also need to have an approved revision. At least using the normal configurator. I do not know how the CQP (KBMax) one works.

Also… aren’t configured parts, by definition, nonstock? How are you planning to build configured parts to stock?

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We are not using CQP; we are using the standard configurator. The item is not a non-stock item; we are configuring the part at the time of the sales order without the ‘Make to Direct’ option. If we select the approved revision, will a job be created after running the MRP.

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I don’t think you can do that. Configured Parts are Make Direct by definition and should be flagged as nonstock.

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It has been changed to keep the item flagged as ‘Make Direct’ and then remove the demand link after the job is created. Is it possible to remove the demand in this case?

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How can you stock configured parts? How would you ever tell them apart? You could have 10 in stock, and all 10 are configured differently and you have no way to tell them apart.

I don’t see a scenario where this makes sense. Please explain what it is you are really trying to do?

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