Re: JBA ML - MRP and DRP

Hi Stuart

You may want to experiment with the independent demand field on the
manufacturing item master. From your message, it sounds like you want a
setting of 1 so that only sales orders are considered for independent
demand. I'll bet its set to blank right now for the parts in question.
Setting this flag allows you to also control whether transfer orders,
distribution orders, and customer schedules are to be included in
independent demand. Run a test and let us know if this addresses your issue.

Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Sandler" <SSandler@KREBS.COM>
To: <jbausers-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: JBA ML - MRP and DRP


> We are using both MRP and DRP and have discovered a problem that I
wondered
> if anyone else had encountered.
>
> We use DRP only to transfer goods from stockroom to stockroom (for example
> from our stockroom in Tucson to one in Canada). In the past, we used sales
> orders with no selling price, but had to do monthly journal entries to
> reverse the costs. When we upgraded to System 21, we purchased DRP to
> eliminate this.
>
> Now, we have found out that System 21 MRP does not see 'DRP' orders as
> supply, but rather as demand. In other words, if we have a requirement for
> 30 widgets, and happen to have 15 in stockroom 10 and then create a DRP
> order to transfer them to stockroom 01, MRP thinks that we have a demand
for
> 45 and tells us to order that many, instead of seeing the 15 in stockroom
10
> as a potential supply.
>
> I turned this problem into the GEAC help desk, thinking we had simply set
up
> something incorrectly, but they confirm that DRP and MRP will not work
> together in this type of example.
>
> If any of you have any suggestions, or if you have encountered this and
have
> an idea, I would appreciate hearing from you.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Stuart Sandler
> Director of Information Systems
> Krebs Engineers
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