As part of trying to minimize risk for our supply chain, we are looking at having multiple suppliers for critical items and MRO items. The team would like to be able to source the same part number but a % of purchases from supplier A and a % of purchases from suppler B. Does anyone currently do this? If so, how do you get MRP to reflect the information expected to manage?
The only functionality that Epicor has out of the box for multiple-supplier-sourcing is through the Purchase Contracts module, which is sort of sideways from what I think you described. That module assumes you’re setting up contracts to purchase some quantities of some number of parts over the next “time frame”, and it allows you to split up that quantity among suppliers.
It is also very finicky. My former CFO was not impressed… but our use case wasn’t really how it was designed.
Thank you for the feedback.
I’m not sure that is what our team is thinking. I figured it was worth the ask.