Use this function to define the runtime parameters on which the MRP (Material Requirements Planning) and MPS (Master Production Schedule) calculations will be based. You define the parameters on a 'per site' basis.
Refer to documentation Implementation
The Requirements parameters function contains a header information section and four tabs:
You define a set of MRP and MPS parameters per site.
The MRP and MPS parameters are similar, however as they are completely independent of each other you must define a set of MRP parameters and a set of MPS parameters.
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You use the header information to define the site for which MRP (Material Requirements Planning) and MPS (Master Production Schedule) calculation runtime parameters are required. The site must be a warehouse (storage site).
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The following fields are present on this tab :
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Use this field to define the storage site (warehouse). The site defined on the user record is displayed by default but can be amended.
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You use this tab to define the first set of MRP (Material Requirements Planning) calculation parameters.
On this tab you specify the firm horizon for the planning calculations and how the recommendations are to be bucketed, that is in days, weeks and months.
You specify which resources are to be included in the MRP calculations, that is, you specify which order types and stock MRP must include replenishments from. You can include include incoming stock from purchase orders, work orders, intersite (transfer) and subcontract orders. You can choose to remove uninspected items, that is those items that have not yet been through Quality Control, from the calculation of available stock.
You also specify which requirements to include, that is, which order types the MRP calculations must include demand from. You can include demand from the forecasts you have entered, sales and intersite orders, and project tasks.
The parameters you select for the starting (initial) stock calculations can significantly affect the length of time it takes to run the MRP calculations. Please observe the notes and warnings for the Transfers field (field MRPTRFSTO) below in particular.
The MRP parameters are continued on the MRP Calculation 1 tab.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Processing
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This field is used in conjunction with the BOM code field. Use this field to define which type of BOM code (Manufacturing or Subcontract) will be defined in the BOM code field. |
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Use this field to define the BOM code that is to be used in the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and the Master Production Schedule (MPS) calculations.
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A weekly structure is a set of 7 values, each specifying the hourly capacity of a day in the week.
Calendars are used for calculating the capacity of a work center. |
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Specify the duration of the replanning analysis period (in weeks). This period starts beyond the firm horizon, provided it has been defined for the product. |
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Use this field to define the duration of the load calculation (in weeks), if permitted for the defined BOM code.
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Use this field to define the type of manufacturing lead time to be used by the calculations:
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Click this check box to activate overstock analysis. The suggestion considers the maximum stock at period end. |
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Click this check box to print a report of the MRP or MPS calculations at the end of the processing run. |
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Click this check box if all MRP and MPS managed products should be included in the planning calculations.
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Click this check box if the WOS/POS suggestions calculation is only to be performed on the items selected according to the MRP and MPS parameters (products MRP, RPS, MRP+MPS). If you leave this check box clear this ensures the ascending compatibility between previous versions of the requirement calculations. The WOS/POS suggestion calculation is carried out on all products at the site. Only the WOS/MWS results relating to the selected product group are then specified in the ORDERS table. All MWS are considered as requirements for the current calculation, regardless of their origin (either MRP or MPS). |
Buckets
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The requirement calculation groups requirements by period and generates purchase or production suggestions for each requirement. Material Requirements Planning (MRP) calculation periods are known as 'buckets'. Buckets can be defined in days, weeks and months. The grouping matches the division of the proposals from the calculation.
It is possible to perform a requirement calculation with one or many period types (but always in the following order: days, weeks, months). The division into periods can be performed over a horizon of 2000 days (just over 5 years), and for a maximum of 1000 periods. Depending on the calculation start date, the number of periods will automatically be adjusted so that 'week' type periods start on the first day of the week and 'month' type periods cover an entire month with a possible week's overlap. For example, a grouping of 30 days/ 4 weeks/ 12 months will be expressed as:
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Click this check box to adjust the schedule automatically to conform to the following rules:
The following rules are applied:
For example:
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Block number 6
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Use this parameter for a specific processing script. This parameter is not used by Sage X3. |
Starting stock
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The MRP or MPS process is based on the start stock quantity, requests (demand) and resources (replenishments). It determines the reorder suggestions required for each product. Start stock specifies the stock type on which the calculations are based. Click this check box if physical stock must be included in the calculated start stock. Allocated stock will be deducted from the start stock. |
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Use this field to control how uninspected items (stock at status Q), that is those items that have not yet been through Quality Control, are to be used in calculation of available stock.
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should include rejected stock (stock at status R) in the initial stock. |
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should include transfer stock (stock being transferred to a different site) in the initial stock.
If a direct delivery at one site without an initial Purchase order on the other site does not create an intersite transfer receipt simultaneously on the second site, click this check box. That is, you should include transfer stock if the receipt at the second site (the intersite 'transferred to' site) is generated independently.
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should include the eventual stock of phantom subgroups in the initial stock.
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Requirements
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Click the check box to specify if the associated requirement (demand) is to be included in the MRP or MPS calculations. You can include demand from the forecasts you have entered, sales and intersite orders, and project tasks. |
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should decrease quantities related to suspended transactions from the available stock. |
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Click this check box if any sales forecast adjustments must be within the demand horizon. This only concerns products for which a request horizon has been defined at the site level. The adjustment for the planning calculations is based on the following principle:
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Resources
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Click the check box to specify if the associated resource (order type) is to be included in the MRP or MPS calculations as a replenishment. You can include incoming stock from purchase orders, work orders, intersite (transfer) and subcontract orders. |
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Presentation
The MRP (Material Requirements Planning) calculation parameters continue on this tab.
On this tab you define the final set of parameters to be used for the planning calculations and which make and buy recommendations (suggested orders) can be created to cover demand and replenish stock. For example, you can optionally exclude safety stock and manufacturing losses from the calculations.
You also define the replanning rules, that is the rules that define the time period within which actual requirements can be established and resources can be replanned.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Miscellaneous
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should ignore safety (security) stock, regardless of the parameter defined in the reorder strategy. |
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should ignore the coverage duration for all processed products. |
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Click this check box if, for the products managed with coverage, the planning calculations should take replenishments (resources) into account in the coverage horizon. |
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should ignore the loss (scrap) percentage on a component line of a bill of materials (BOM).
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should ignore the firm horizon when creating replenishment suggestions. |
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Use this field to define how the MRP or MPS calculations should handle safety stock.
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Suggested orders
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Click the check box to specify if the associated resource (order type) can be generated to cover demand or replenish stock. Work order suggestions (WOS), Purchase order suggestions (POS), Intersite transfer requests (TRS) and Subcontract order suggestions (EOS) can be generated. |
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Statistics
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This field displays the date the MRP calculations/MPS calculations were last run. |
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This field displays the length of time (in minutes) it took to complete the last MRP calculation/MPS calculation run. |
Grid Replanning rules
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This field displays the type of resource that can be replanned. The first two characters = the order type; the third character (P (Planned) or F (Firm)) = the status of the order. For example, POP=Purchase Order Planned, WOF=Work Order Firm. |
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Replanning determines the consistency of the planning (within a replanning lead time) for each resource with the requests and suggestions, and optimizes the resource with respect to the requirements. For each type of resource that can be replanned, use this field to define the replanning mode:
If the selected replanning mode is Messages only or Simulation, at least one lead time must be entered.
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Use this field to define the earliest time (in calendar days) within which resources can be replanned. The replanning uses this lead time to propose the coverage of a requirement to meet demand. |
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Use this field to define the latest time (in calendar days) within which resources can be replanned. The replanning uses this lead time to propose the coverage of a requirement to meet demand. |
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Use this field to define which type of replanning must be carried out for quantities (advance, delay). |
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Use this field to define which type of replanning must be carried out for dates (advance, delay). |
Block number 4
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Use this check box to define the replanning behavior when a resource is sufficient to cover the requirements:
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Use this field to control the replanning of work in progress orders:
A work order is defined as "in progress" if at least one production tracking record exists; a subcontract order is defined as "in progress" as soon as it is ordered; a purchase order is defined as "in progress" if it is partially received. |
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Click this check box if the reorder strategy for 'net quantity' type is to be ignored. Resources are replanned with reference to the requirements included in the calculations. Leave this check box clear if resources are only replanned with reference to the first (chronological) requirement included in the calculations. |
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Select this check box to replan material requirements created for a work order if the work order is replanned. Leave this check box clear if the original material requirements created for a work order are to be retained.
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Presentation
You use this tab to define the first set of MPS (Master Production Schedule) calculation parameters.
On this tab you specify the firm horizon for the schedule and how the recommendations are to be bucketed, that is in days, weeks and months.
You specify which resources are to be included in the MPS calculations, that is, you specify which order types and stock the MPS must include replenishments from. You can include include incoming stock from purchase orders, work orders, intersite (transfer) and subcontract orders. You can choose to remove uninspected items, that is those items that have not yet been through Quality Control, from the calculation of available stock.
You also specify which requirements to include, that is, which order types the MPS calculations must include demand from. You can include demand from the forecasts you have entered, sales and intersite orders, and project tasks.
The parameters you select for the starting (initial) stock calculations can significantly affect the length of time it takes to run the MPS calculations. Please observe the notes and warnings for the Transfers field (field MPSTRFSTO) below in particular.
The MPS parameters are continued on the MPS Calculation 2 tab.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Processing
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This field is used in conjunction with the BOM code field. Use this field to define which type of BOM code (Manufacturing or Subcontract) will be defined in the BOM code field. |
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Use this field to define the BOM code that is to be used in the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and the Master Production Schedule (MPS) calculations.
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A weekly structure is a set of 7 values, each specifying the hourly capacity of a day in the week.
Calendars are used for calculating the capacity of a work center. |
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Specify the duration of the replanning analysis period (in weeks). This period starts beyond the firm horizon, provided it has been defined for the product. |
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Use this field to define the duration of the load calculation (in weeks), if permitted for the defined BOM code.
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Use this field to define the type of manufacturing lead time to be used by the calculations:
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Click this check box to activate overstock analysis. The suggestion considers the maximum stock at period end. |
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Click this check box to print a report of the MRP or MPS calculations at the end of the processing run. |
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Click this check box if all MRP and MPS managed products should be included in the planning calculations.
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Click this check box if the WOS/POS suggestions calculation is only to be performed on the items selected according to the MRP and MPS parameters (products MRP, RPS, MRP+MPS). If you leave this check box clear this ensures the ascending compatibility between previous versions of the requirement calculations. The WOS/POS suggestion calculation is carried out on all products at the site. Only the WOS/MWS results relating to the selected product group are then specified in the ORDERS table. All MWS are considered as requirements for the current calculation, regardless of their origin (either MRP or MPS). |
Buckets
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The requirement calculation groups requirements by period and generates purchase or production suggestions for each requirement. Material Requirements Planning (MRP) calculation periods are known as 'buckets'. Buckets can be defined in days, weeks and months. The grouping matches the division of the proposals from the calculation.
It is possible to perform a requirement calculation with one or many period types (but always in the following order: days, weeks, months). The division into periods can be performed over a horizon of 2000 days (just over 5 years), and for a maximum of 1000 periods. Depending on the calculation start date, the number of periods will automatically be adjusted so that 'week' type periods start on the first day of the week and 'month' type periods cover an entire month with a possible week's overlap. For example, a grouping of 30 days/ 4 weeks/ 12 months will be expressed as:
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Click this check box to adjust the schedule automatically to conform to the following rules:
The following rules are applied:
For example:
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Block number 6
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Use this parameter for a specific processing script. This parameter is not used by Sage X3. |
Starting stock
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The MRP or MPS process is based on the start stock quantity, requests (demand) and resources (replenishments). It determines the reorder suggestions required for each product. Start stock specifies the stock type on which the calculations are based. Click this check box if physical stock must be included in the calculated start stock. Allocated stock will be deducted from the start stock. |
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Use this field to control how uninspected items (stock at status Q), that is those items that have not yet been through Quality Control, are to be used in calculation of available stock.
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should include rejected stock (stock at status R) in the initial stock. |
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should include transfer stock (stock being transferred to a different site) in the initial stock.
If a direct delivery at one site without an initial Purchase order on the other site does not create an intersite transfer receipt simultaneously on the second site, click this check box. That is, you should include transfer stock if the receipt at the second site (the intersite 'transferred to' site) is generated independently.
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should include the eventual stock of phantom subgroups in the initial stock.
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Requirements
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Click the check box to specify if the associated requirement (demand) is to be included in the MRP or MPS calculations. You can include demand from the forecasts you have entered, sales and intersite orders, and project tasks. |
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should decrease quantities related to suspended transactions from the available stock. |
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Click this check box if any sales forecast adjustments must be within the demand horizon. This only concerns products for which a request horizon has been defined at the site level. The adjustment for the planning calculations is based on the following principle:
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Resources
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Click the check box to specify if the associated resource (order type) is to be included in the MRP or MPS calculations as a replenishment. You can include incoming stock from purchase orders, work orders, intersite (transfer) and subcontract orders. |
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Presentation
The MPS (Master Production Schedule) calculation parameters continue on this tab.
On this tab you define the final set of parameters to be used for the scheduling calculations and which make and buy recommendations (suggested orders) can be created to cover demand and replenish stock.
The MPS does not require some of these parameters. As the MRP and MPS parameters are similar the field help description applicable to the MRP parameters is included.
The MPS does not require replanning rules. You can set the Method to 'No processing' and the Replan quantities and dates to 'None'.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Miscellaneous
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should ignore safety (security) stock, regardless of the parameter defined in the reorder strategy. |
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should ignore the coverage duration for all processed products. |
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Click this check box if, for the products managed with coverage, the planning calculations should take replenishments (resources) into account in the coverage horizon. |
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should ignore the loss (scrap) percentage on a component line of a bill of materials (BOM).
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Click this check box if the planning calculations should ignore the firm horizon when creating replenishment suggestions. |
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Use this field to define how the MRP or MPS calculations should handle safety stock.
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Suggested orders
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Click the check box to specify if the associated resource (order type) can be generated to cover demand or replenish stock. Work order suggestions (WOS), Purchase order suggestions (POS), Intersite transfer requests (TRS) and Subcontract order suggestions (EOS) can be generated. |
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Statistics
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This field displays the date the MRP calculations/MPS calculations were last run. |
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This field displays the length of time (in minutes) it took to complete the last MRP calculation/MPS calculation run. |
Grid Replanning rules
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This field displays the type of resource that can be replanned. The first two characters = the order type; the third character (P (Planned) or F (Firm)) = the status of the order. For example, POP=Purchase Order Planned, WOF=Work Order Firm. |
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Replanning determines the consistency of the planning (within a replanning lead time) for each resource with the requests and suggestions, and optimizes the resource with respect to the requirements. For each type of resource that can be replanned, use this field to define the replanning mode:
If the selected replanning mode is Messages only or Simulation, at least one lead time must be entered.
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Use this field to define the earliest time (in calendar days) within which resources can be replanned. The replanning uses this lead time to propose the coverage of a requirement to meet demand. |
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Use this field to define the latest time (in calendar days) within which resources can be replanned. The replanning uses this lead time to propose the coverage of a requirement to meet demand. |
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Use this field to define which type of replanning must be carried out for quantities (advance, delay). |
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Use this field to define which type of replanning must be carried out for dates (advance, delay). |
Block number 4
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Use this check box to define the replanning behavior when a resource is sufficient to cover the requirements:
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Use this field to control the replanning of work in progress orders:
A work order is defined as "in progress" if at least one production tracking record exists; a subcontract order is defined as "in progress" as soon as it is ordered; a purchase order is defined as "in progress" if it is partially received. |
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Click this check box if the reorder strategy for 'net quantity' type is to be ignored. Resources are replanned with reference to the requirements included in the calculations. Leave this check box clear if resources are only replanned with reference to the first (chronological) requirement included in the calculations. |
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Select this check box to replan material requirements created for a work order if the work order is replanned. Leave this check box clear if the original material requirements created for a work order are to be retained.
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By default, the following reports are associated with this function :
PRTSCR : Screen print
This can be changed using a different setup.
In addition to the generic error messages, the following messages can appear during the entry :
The site that has been entered is not defined.
No period division has be made in the scheduling horizon.