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Eric, In a message dated 6/8/99 2:51:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, estevens@adrus.com writes: > We need to produce a weekly report listing ingredients required to produce > items for order fulfillment the following week. There aren't a lot of orders/ > items involved. Our users find setting up a full MRP run to be time-comsuming > and overkill versus their needs. > > Items and quantities to be produced would be input. Referencing the BOM, the > process needs to account for ingredient quantity on-hand, committed and on- > order then calculate the variance to requirements. This will allow the user to > quickly review the listing and determine if purchasing is needed to meet > production. > > Does anyone know of a quasi-quick and dirty way to address this? What > approach would you use? <<snip>> What is wrong with MRP? If the inventory is correct, the orders (both purchase and customer) are correct, the bills of material are correct, and the routings are correct -- all required for your "quick and dirty" solution -- how much more trouble would entering a master schedule and running MRP be? If there aren't many orders or items, running MRP shouldn't take that long. Entering items manually not only _BEGS_ for errors to be introduced into the system (even doing it _RIGHT_, my current primary client has repeatedly entered orders for 10 _MILLION_ yards instead of 10 _THOUSAND_), but also begs for important customer orders to _NOT_ be taken into account. Have you ever written a routine to handle phantoms in this environment? Especially the "stockable" phantoms that BPCS allows (Roger should be shot for this)? Ugly. Sounds more like a lack of training/hardware performance than a need for new programs, IMO. Even the "quick and dirty" reports I've written in the past have been based upon the data generated by an unmodified MRP/CAP system from the vendor that originally wrote the package. Perhaps you could elaborate on why the users find MRP to be "time-consuming and overkill"? Regards, Dean Asmussen Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc. Fuquay-Varina, NC USA E-mail: DAsmussen@aol.com "BPCS -- Better Programs Coming Soon" -- Anonymous +--- | This is the BPCS Users Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to BPCS-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to BPCS-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to BPCS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner: dasmussen@aol.com +---
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