Re: Labor Load for customer orders -- BPCS-L

You helped me think of more ways

BPCS MRP has a simulation capability.

Change the planning date of MRP CAP so it is whacko to get at the customer orders that are past due or far future & run your MRP that way and copy the whole ball of wax into the simulation area, then put planning date of MRP CAP back the way it should be and run it correctly ... now your data is good and you have the whole ball of wax in the simulation area to play with.

I had been assuming Bob's needs include time to make components. Yes, that can be done with query/400 but when you got multiple levels, that calls for intermediate query work files. I am more comfortable cloning some BOM program that I know works right.

If planner code assigned in conjunction with item class, you can run things like MRP250 but not generate the orders it says you need ... just the report that totals what is needed, by planner code.

We have modified that MRP250 report to add more info that did not come native to BPCS. Like WIP and indicate which manufactured components have seriously missing engineering. - Your Pal, Al Macintyre http://www.ryze.com/go/Al9Mac =:

i can think of three ways.

one - write your own program to run through the customer orders and
routing files and calculate the std labor hours required to produce the
items ordered. if you're good with query this could be done. SQL might
be a little easier, or writer your own RPG program. i've done this many
times for many reasons. the run basis code gets interesting as does
set-up time.

two - schedule the orders into a certain time period out in the future,
say year 2009. (i don't know how far your backlog extends into the
Future). then run MRP and let it plan order out these in the future.
then use query. or something, to extract these planned orders and recap
them however you want to.

three - enter the orders into your test system and run mrp there

>>> bkohlndorfer@xxxxxxxxxx 02/10/05 12:43PM >>>
BPCS v6.02
We are looking to find the amount of labor it will take to produce the
items ordered by customers.
The Customer Orders have not yet been turned into Shop Orders so I
cannot get the information from the FSO file for Labor Hours remaining.
Is there an easy way to find how much labor it will take to produce a
certain item or items (by item class) for the open customer orders on
our system?

TIA,
Bob
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