Performance of MRP on the cloud

Kinetic ERP
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Hello

I have a customer that runs 25000 jobs on the cloud, and they want to go to finite scheduling with an horizon of two weeks for finite. At the moment the MRP and scheduling process takes approximately 8 to 9 hours. Does anybody in the group has the same volume of jobs. Can you share the performance you have on the cloud.

Thanks

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what version of the software are they running?
Do they have ALL resources marked at finite? or just some of them?

I typically suggest that finite be turned on for only the typical bottleneck resources, and not for everything. (at least initially).

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Hi they are on the cloud so 2025.2. They would like everything to be Finite but I will explain them your logic. At the moment they are all inifinite

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doing a big bang, and turning all things finite may cause some significant process differences, and they should not try to go from step a to z without a few baby steps… right now, their scheduling works but is probably “overloading” a few of the resources. One tactic is to look at the overloaded resources, and only turn on finite scheduling for those first.

But “turning on” finite is only step one.. they also have to change their processes.. they will need to run Global Rescheduling very regularly (nightly) to reschedule the jobs that were SUPPOSED to finish YESTERDAY so that they consume TODAY instead… otherwise, there might be a false opening TODAY that a new job will be scheduled into when there really is no available time.
May who go full finite will do:

  1. run MRP without PO Suggestions (saves time since you will do this later). and DO NOT ALLOW HISTORICAL SCHEDULING (Dates in the past). because Finite and Historical scheduling are counter intuitive.if you finitely schedule your shop to work yesterday, it simply does not work.
  2. Run Global Reschedule
  3. Run Generate PO Suggestions (to get the PO suggestions to match any new start dates)

BUT the other half of the story is that many companies find that their DATA is not strong enough to turn on full finite scheduling… how accurate are their routings? How stable is their workforce? do they ever adjust the hours (add more overtime) if they are overloaded/behind on their work? Note that with Finite, the system will never overload their work. IT will just schedule things to be late.

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OH ALSO.. make sure that they click the box to “only include parts with demand or minimum” when running MRP. This will speed up MRP and deliver the same results.

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Thanks, also should I separate the shopload in 2026.1. We are waiting the upgrade on 2026.1 to do our test because of Linux and the new Shopload feature.