I’ll tell you, the holy grail of this would be if MRP could do it, too.
So, we are ETO and, in short, all of our orders are make direct.
But in truth, they are not ALL make direct. We used to do that, and once we firm the job, it is make direct. But most of our unfirm jobs are supplying non-direct orders, lumped (via days of supply) a week at a time (past 60 days out). There’s a whole discussion of it in that post below. It was a tweak I had to make to trade off for MRP time.
But if I could actually keep all my sales orders as make direct and yet MRP knew to lump them into jobs for several demand links (past a time fence) in order to reduce the load on MRP, oh that would be amazing.
Because past 60 days, I lose the visibility of “this job is for this project (on this order).” (To get the link back, I have to run multi-level pegging and query off of it. It works okay.)
@timshuwy Whaddya think? Shooting for the moon? I ask because you helped me with that post below. (It’s working well, by the way.)
(@mbayley I voted on both, by the way.)