Change the MRP module so that when you follow it's recommendation to make purchases to replenish stock (not SO or WO demand, but IM reorder point demand) it will not continually make push out recommendations on that PO up until the day you receive it.

Clearing the "Reschedule" checkbox on each PO line (click the Additional button) will avoid this, but that tells MRP to no longer make any reschedule recommendations on that line. If you later have hard WO or SO demand, you will not get a recommendation that you push out or pull in an existing PO to meet demand. So you are forced to either deal with bogus reschedule recommendations everyday, or you have to give up the ability to get legitimate reschedule recommendations on these PO lines.

If it instead would just not try to recalculate a new date required on an existing PO line if there is no "hard" SO or WO demand for that item, you wouldn't have to give up the needed functionality of push/pull recommendations in order to avoid bogus ones.

by: Jeff L. | over a year ago | Manufacturing