items that are both MPS and MRP

wondering if anyone else has a similar opportunity.

we are a company that sells products in cases (4 units per) to the smaller
stores, and the same item on carts (120 units per) to larger customers.  we
need to make separate shop orders for each and have assigned separate item
numbers.

the BOM for the cart has the individual unit as a child because we make it
first (that's where we collect the data) and then want to backflush the
inventory to make the carts.

MPS creates planned orders for both the case and the cart.  the units show a
mfg allocation to achieve the cart sales, but MRP can't create a planned
order for it because MPS already did in insufficient quantity.

are planners expected to add the allocation to the planned order before
releasing?  is there a way i haven't thought of?

thanks

brad


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