Re: MRP and shop vs. purchase orders

We are also on 405 CD and we also have parts that are manufactured in one
facility and used as raw materials in another, so they are coded as
manufactured so that we CAN make them in the right facility.

What happens, due to personnel turn-over, is new staff who are not yet
comfortable or familiar with our item # type planner code etc. coding
systems, at risk of releasing a shop order for either a purchased item, or
an item that actually gets made in a different facility.  We saw no way to
stop the actual creation of the bad shop orders.  We modified the program
that prints the shop order paperwork SFC520 so that if and when an
inappropriate shop order is generated, the paperwork explains the problem
and instructs in what is to be done, which includes closing this
inappropriate shop order.

I do not believe we have had any cases of us trying to place a purchase
order for an item that should belong in a shop order, but we have had items
that move between purchasing and manufacturing coding because we find one
way or the other is less expensive, and it is very easy to mess up the
costs in the process.

This question stems from a recent problem.  We're on 4.05CD.

Recently, an item was entered on a customer order.  It was coded as a
purchased item, but a shop order was keyed by mistake.  The item then
disappeared from our home-grown MRP system's reports, since the demand had
been met.

Is there a place, in BPCS, where I can preclude placing the 'wrong' type of
order?  In other words, if it's coded as a purchased item, will the system
tell me and not allow (or at least flag as an error) a shop order?

Thanks - Rob

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