heres what I did
 
run MR-F to generate the requirements
 
run report MR-H order action with only the M and B filters selected.
 
If you get 1000" of items like I did the 1st time you need to review each item and see why its generating a requirement.
 
I had to fix lots of stocking levels mostly  since the old system had lots of bad values that we imported into the new system.
 
once you clear the clutter of bad information you can start working on lead times and dates to get more info from the system and have it help with scheduling.
 
Its easy to use  but for me was messy when I started it up. After 2-3 days of messing with items I had it cleaned up enough that it was giveing us good info.
 
Now I run it after we enter orders and I get the stock w/o out of the way and let the w/o process create the rest of the orders specific to that job.
 
JW

Thank you for your help a few weeks ago. I have been so busy I haven't had time to respond back. I took your advice, but I had the opposite problem that you had when you first started. There was little to no information in the MR-F, so now we are running crystal reports to see what has transpired in the last year, so we can get an average reorder level, etc... I feel the fun has just begun . I'll keep you informed.

You are awesome!    Yes, please email me the spreadsheet , I am sure it will be a tremdous help. I would like to go ahead and implement asap before we get swamped. Thanks for your help.