I am encountering a specific situation for the first time. My company wants to start reserving production capacity for certain customers based on their sales volume. We can easily note which customers these are, but what would be the best way to go about actually reserving capacity for these companies, or would doing this manually really be the only way to go about it?
how about creating forecasts for the part numbers that this customer purchases, also associate that forecast to the customer. Then when the customer actually purchases the item, it will “consume” the forecast.
A Forecast will cause MRP to create an unfirm job. Unfirm jobs will consume resources (and suggest PO for purchased parts).