WOW, thanks for that shadow -- some very useful info here.  This is the information you simply can NOT get from books / manuals and why we're hoping planning on heading out to Phoenix in February.

Yes we get plenty of mrp messages
 
That's why I only print out the order action report using M or B  only once in a while do we used delay or expedite  but that's coming soon.
 
I just took over the purchasing job. (in my spare time)   actually I just issue the po's and do the 1st review.
 
other people follow up manually by job to make sure we get stuff in ect  they usually use shortage reports.
 
once you get the M and B reports clean the system is very useful and performs a cross check on what everyone is doing in the system.
 
Delay expedite and review would be great if we had that much time   maybe by changing the buffers and stuff I could do better but right now the system is getting stuff in here at the right time and all my work orders are issued for what I need.  the only hard part is getting people to complete the work orders !!
 
 
see you in pheonix
 
J Dub

Hey again,  
 
Question on lot size.  It referrs to a "typical production run," which would seem to indicate that it's related to made parts as opposed to purchased parts, but from what I can tell, we need a lot size on everything that would be run through the 'generate lead times.'  Is this true?  
 
How does this relate to reorder amounts?
 
Thanks

To set lead times for purchased goods you need to do it manually BUT you can do it via an import or use something like wintask to do the data entry for you if there are a lot of items.
 
J Dub

Thanks again.  Lynn, I didn't know about MR-D -- that's going to be quite helpful.

The lead times are understandably easy to miss, as the lead time input box is on the secondary screen.  So upon a quick view, chances are you'd not see it right away.

Quote from shadowcaster   on 01/11/06 at 22:06:32:

 
We are, slowly but surely, working towards implementing.  We've created a test product and will be running MRP on it with fake PO's and WO's.  When we're comfortable and acclimated with the reports, we'll move to "real" products.  Part of the delay in moving ahead faster with this, has been due to some large bigs we've been trying to pull together... so everyone has had their focus on other things for the past several weeks.
 
I'm sure I'll have some other questions as we move forward and I'll keep you up to date as well.  Thanks again for all of your "real world" input... always the best kind.

anyone making any progress with getting mrp to work.
 
I could not live with out it
 
 
J Dub