How to exclude PO/PO lines from MRP?

[Chris Kelleher]

Hi everybody!

Our sales office are running MFG/Pro 8.6D.

Is there a way of excluding a PO or selected PO lines from MRP?

Our sales office buy DEMO items from us and in parallell they buy items for
ordinary sale. For both types they purchase the same item number but with
different prices. I whould like those PO lines for DEMO items to not mess up
the MRP. Is that possible?

Aina Aske Nesby
ERP Analysist
Supply Chain Management

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[Chris Kelleher]

You could set the po line type to (m)emo, that way MRP will ignore the
order item, but it will still be visable as an open order.

HTH

Richard Beveridge
Production Manager
Solid State Logic Ltd - UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 842300
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 841673
richardb@solid-state-logic.com

 

[Chris Kelleher]

Hello,

I would set the PO type of DEMO item as Memo items during PO creations,
so that there wouldn't be any inventory transactions created. Hope this
helps.

regards
Michael

 

[Chris Kelleher]

Two methods

1. Use PO of type Memo
2. Use another site - MRP runs by site.


As I can understand from you your best choice is number 1 and set these POs as
Memo

HTH
Ilan

 

[Chris Kelleher]

Aina,

As has already been suggested, making them memo items or for a different
site will prevent MRP from processing those sales orders.

However, I'm confused as to how they would mess up your MRP. To my
thinking, demand is demand -- I'd still need to make those demo units,
which will require the same components, which I'd need to order. I can see
where they might create issues with forecast consumption, but I'd get
around that by making the demo item orders non-consumable (setting the
Consume Forecast flag on the SO header to No).

Remember as well that if you set the demo lines up as memo items, they will
be completely treated like memo items -- no inventory transactions! So
you will have to deal with a disappearing inventory problem -- production
made parts that just *disappeared*.

Please repost with an explanation of the MRP problem you're trying to
avoid. There may be better ways to address the problem.

Good luck.

Scott
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