RE: Safety Stock in BPCS V6.1.01

Doug,
There is no way to distiguish planned order source, especially for child
items.  It is possible to set the demand codes to orders only for a
period of time as defined by the demand time fence field but you will
still experience planned orders to meet minimum balance targets
regardless.  The cumulative lead time should include all items so I
suspect that you may have your systems setting such that it is using the
IIM records rather than the CIC records to determine lead time.  There
is a switch somewhere in SYS but it escapes me at this point.

Mitch Damon, CPIM
Planning Systems Manager
Birds Eye Foods
Rochester, NY
(585) 383-1070 x 250

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug_McLauchlan@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Doug_McLauchlan@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:29 PM
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Safety Stock in BPCS V6.1.01

We are looking for some advice on our BPCS V6.1.01 MRP/MPS setup.

We have a safety stock set as a minimum balance in MRP140 for a 
manufactured parent, but during planning the purchased child does not 
appear to take into consideration the lead time of both the parent and 
child. As a result the planned orders always have an expedite message 
attached to them.

In addition, we would like to distinguish between orders planned to meet

customer requirements vs. those planned to meet minimum balance 
requirements.

Is there some specific setup that we need to follow to get this to work?

Any advise would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Doug McLauchlan
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