We’re looking to start using PO Suggestions, so I’m educating myself on all the parameters. This morning we’re testing “Allow Consumption of Minimum Qty” in Site Maintenance.
The example in the MRP Tech Ref states: When the projected On-Hand Quantity for a purchased part falls below the Safety Stock quantity or a 0 quantity, the Urgent Planning parameters are used to determine quantities on the PO suggestions that fall within the lead time window.
It looks like we’d use Safety Stock as a buffer to drive an Urgent Planning generated PO suggestion sooner than if it hit a zero quantity on hand.
We have minimum quantity set, but I’m guessing that urgent planning won’t kick out a PO Sug if it’s below minimum, but above zero when Allow Consume to Min is checked.
If we start using safety stock, should I decrease the min quantity by the new safety stock amount to keep the same re-order point for standard lead time PO suggestions?