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RE: Forecasting question

People who do not read the documentation have a tendency to come up with terminology that is contrary to ERP standards. Also at many companies people insist on using their own terminology for stuff. It is important when posting to discussion groups to be able to translate from the unique language of your company to use standards technology of the package you asking the questions about.
MRP100 feeds forecasting info into MRP just like minimum balance safety stock also influences what is needed. You can also have dynamic safety stock that is sensitive to seasonal variations in customer demand. 

We use a system that I think is more trouble than what comes with BPCS.
We have customer orders with a PO# of FORECAST, then we have people asking me to include or exclude those orders from some BPCS functions, and I tell them that BPCS is not designed for modifications that are not totally thought through. If we want to do MRP reports that list only the activity of a particular customer, then we ought to use planner codes, but when we are looking at MRP on some item, we looking at it for the whole item, not able to separate reasons for MRP doing this or that, except pegging to parent orders, for that we need an add-on package such as RPM. 


MRP600 is MRP not forecasting.  MRP500 is MPS.  The forecasting program
is a FOR program.

Daniel J. Sweeney
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Subject: [BPCS-L] Forecasting question

BPCS Version 6.1.01



In the MRP600C, how can I tell that the forecasting is running and not
the MRP?



I need to add a custom program to call but only during the forecasting
run and not the MRP run.



Daniel

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