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If you are creating a name
for simulation only, you may want to set the Relieve option to No. This
limits the processing time associated with production and shipment relief
occurring against multiple master schedule names.
You should load sales
orders with forecasts that have already been consumed, rather than
separately to ensure that your forecast entries reflect actual demand.
You should run the exploder
if you have changed your bills of material since you last launched the
planning process, or if you change the value in the Planned Items field.
MRP plans by item number
but not by engineering revision level. If you have 300 of Rev A and 900 of
Rev B in inventory, MRP will show a demand of 600 as satisfied even though
a customer wants Rev A only. The work around appears to be to create a new
item number if the products are really a different form, fit, and
function.
Make sure the Planning
Manager is running. Each day it will spawn a once-a-day-tasks worker which
will purge many of the MRP tables, including some internal tables and the
open interface tables. Also note that you can purge an MDS, MPS, or MRP by
deleting the record representing the schedule or plan name (i.e. do \ Row
Delete on the Define MDS Names, Define MPS Names, or Define MRP Names
forms). This will launch a purge program and will delete all of the
entries on the schedule or plan and in addition will delete the schedule
or plan header as well. The same thing will work for old forecasts. Only
do this if you no longer need that particular schedule, plan, or forecast.
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