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Message started by perrinmfg on 04/02/04 at 12:45:16

Title: MRP Beginning Balance
Post by perrinmfg on 04/02/04 at 12:45:16

I just ran an MRP today and I noticed that the quantities in the 'On Hand' and the 'MRP Beginning Balance' arent the same. Also the value in the beginning balance has 3 asterisks behind it.

In the past the values have always been the same and I have never seen the asterisks behind the MRP value. This variance seems to be affecting the upcoming transactions.

Is there a new default or switch that I need to change or were there some changes made in a recent update that could be causing this problem?

Title: Re: MRP Beginning Balance
Post by Cyndee Pappas on 04/02/04 at 13:43:45

Generating MRP takes a snapshot. The asterisks indicate that there have been transactions to that part number between the time you ran MR-F and the time you printed your reports. I would re-run MR-F. Despite the warnings mine runs pretty quick.

Title: Re: MRP Beginning Balance
Post by perrinmfg on 04/02/04 at 13:49:27

Cyndee, thanks for the info. I'll rerun MR-F and see if that takes care of my problem.

Title: Re: MRP Beginning Balance
Post by perrinmfg on 04/02/04 at 14:08:50

I just re-ran MR-F and I am still seeing this issue.

Lynn, is it possible that this may be related to the locations issue that you fixed in the last update?

Title: Re: MRP Beginning Balance
Post by Tim Keating on 04/02/04 at 15:10:47

I thought the asterisks appear when the beginning balance has been rounded to a whole number. Are you talking about decimal differences or whole number differences?

There is a flag in SD-D to set whether you want MRP beginning balance to round to next whole number or not.

Title: Re: MRP Beginning Balance
Post by perrinmfg on 04/02/04 at 15:37:20

I am seeing problems with whole number differences, LARGE whole number differences.

Title: Re: MRP Beginning Balance
Post by Lynn Pantic on 04/02/04 at 16:05:25

It is possible it is a location issue. Bring up IN-A for one of the items showing a discrepancy and check the On Hand on the first screen, then click Locations and check that on hand

Title: Re: MRP Beginning Balance
Post by perrinmfg on 04/02/04 at 16:20:09

That appears to be the problem. IN-A displays the correct figure. The locations screen shows one entry with the correct figure and another with a negative figure. The result equals the MRP Beginning balance.

Title: Re: MRP Beginning Balance
Post by Lynn Pantic on 04/02/04 at 17:25:56

If you should have only 1 Location, UT-K-E will take the quantity from the IN-A screen and rebuild the single Location file with that value. Sounds like that is what you need to do. And make sure you install the 3/26 update, the underlying problem is fixed.