Re: JBA ML - MRP and DRP

If  a) really you bought DRP only to avoid reversing costs for the sales
orders (which in your case used to  represent transfers).
and b) AFI was being used to post your sales transactions to GL

then a simple and inexpensive solution would have been to continue creating
sales orders for those transfers and set up AFI so as to ignore all such
sales.Then no postings are sent to GL for these transactions and there
would be no need to do reverse any costs.

But of course DRP also provides for much more control in transfer
operations and the advantage goes further than just having to avoid
re-posting hournal entries.


Regards






Stuart Sandler <SSandler@KREBS.COM>@midrange.com on 12/05/2001 12:52:03 AM

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We are using both MRP and DRP and have discovered a problem that I wondered
if anyone else had encountered.

We use DRP only to transfer goods from stockroom to stockroom (for example
from our stockroom in Tucson to one in Canada). In the past, we used sales
orders with no selling price, but had to do monthly journal entries to
reverse the costs. When we upgraded to System 21, we purchased DRP to
eliminate this.

Now, we have found out that System 21 MRP does not see 'DRP' orders as
supply, but rather as demand. In other words, if we have a requirement for
30 widgets, and happen to have 15 in stockroom 10 and then create a DRP
order to transfer them to stockroom 01, MRP thinks that we have a demand
for
45 and tells us to order that many, instead of seeing the 15 in stockroom
10
as a potential supply.

I turned this problem into the GEAC help desk, thinking we had simply set
up
something incorrectly, but they confirm that DRP and MRP will not work
together in this type of example.

If any of you have any suggestions, or if you have encountered this and
have
an idea, I would appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks in advance.

Stuart Sandler
Director of Information Systems
Krebs Engineers
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