RE: MPS - Customer Demand and General ECL Date Questions

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Also on 4.05CD and planning on visiting Al Mac, though he doesn't know it
yet :)

I have a very closely-related question.  Knowing the restrictions on
lead-time fields (shop calendar vs. calendar year), how does BPCS schedule
stuff?  That sounds like a stupid question, but when using capacity
planning, etc., is it using the calculated manufacturing times from the
router or just the lead time on the item master/CIC file?  In my case, the
actual manufacturing time for, say, a batch of 100 pieces (which is actual
lot size, in general) is relatively short - less than 8 hours.  BPCS wants
to release the shop order on the same day it's due, even though the lead
time stated on both the item master and CIC files is 7 days (to account for
capacity shortfalls, manning issues, etc.)

Thanks - Rob
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