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Message started by PaulG on 09/15/11 at 14:53:38

Title: PO Due Date Padding
Post by PaulG on 09/15/11 at 14:53:38

Hi Folks,

Is there any way to pad the due dates generated by MRP to account for receiving/qc lead times? The order action report has us bring in material on the day that a work order is supposed to be started and this leaves us no room for error.

Thanks,

Paul G

Title: Re: PO Due Date Padding
Post by samir686 on 09/16/11 at 08:07:55

In MRP defaults (mrp SD-Q setting) there is a field "Lead Time for WO Start Date". Just put in the numbers of days you want to pad the start date of work order.

Samir

Title: Re: PO Due Date Padding
Post by PaulG on 09/16/11 at 11:45:03

This will pad all work order start dates? Even if a work order has no purchased parts in it. On assemblies with 3 or 4 different levels wouldn't this cause us to start work orders way before we need them? Maybe I am misinterpreting how this works.

I would like to be able to set up purchased parts to come in 2-3 weeks before the work orders are started without having to start all work orders 2-3+ weeks before they are needed. I hope that makes sense.

Paul

Title: Re: PO Due Date Padding
Post by samir686 on 09/20/11 at 09:23:40

Hi,

This is just virtual padding. It does not touch the work order start date. Suppose you put in 7 days as padding and your work order xyz-1 has a start date of 10/5/2011 and this work order has one item in it, when you run mrp it will make the inhouse date for that raw part to be 9/28/2011. It does not touch your start date of work order in any ways.

I hope this helps

Title: Re: PO Due Date Padding
Post by PaulG on 09/22/11 at 13:04:59

Oh excellent. I think this is exactly what we need. Thank you!

Paul