RE: Forecasting question

I apologize for not being a genius like other members of this group but
I'm new to BPCS and I became the only member of my department, so I am
in a bit of a struggle here.

I will try to follow more standards on future posts to the group.

Thank you,
Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-bounces+dwilkins=suz.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bpcs-l-bounces+dwilkins=suz.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Al
Mac
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:35 PM
To: SSA's BPCS ERP System
Subject: RE: [BPCS-L] 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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>-----Original Message-----
>From: bpcs-l-bounces+dsweeney=phoenixbcinc.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:bpcs-l-bounces+dsweeney=phoenixbcinc.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
>Of Daniel Wilkins
>Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:58 AM
>To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [BPCS-L] Forecasting question
>
>BPCS Version 6.1.01
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>In the MRP600C, how can I tell that the forecasting is running and not
>the MRP?
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>I need to add a custom program to call but only during the forecasting
>run and not the MRP run.
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>
>Daniel