I’m told from time to time MRP doesn’t run for reasons we don’t fully understand… I understand when this happens it causes pretty significant problems for our buyer and production planner and it’s not obvious right away which results in wasted time. I’m also told at 6am someone used to check if MRP ran and if it didn’t they’d attempt to rerun it.
I really don’t want to remote into work everyday at 6am I figure I can write a script to do this for me via the REST API calls, but first wanted to ask how others deal with this type of issue.
I made an Enhancement Request about External Logging. This is part of doing DevOps. You monitor your application to see what is happening in your system so you can respond appropriately. Did errors go up after an upgrade or patch? Are there fewer? New ECO changed the run-time of MRP? Circular BOM?
Why external logging? If you blow away a Pilot system or have to rebuild your live, you lose all those event logs. If you are on SaaS, you don’t have access to the System Event logs. Pushing all of the logs into an external system (cloud or on-prem) allows admins to monitor many metrics easily for multiple systems over time to see trends. Monitoring tools are becoming more and more powerful making unstructured data (like JSON) easier to report on.
We are running MRP on a daily / weekly basis and I am looking to identify any metrics on the volumes processed within the MRP. Is there a table that can be used to provide business metrics?