My department has just started using generate POs. New PO suggestions and Change PO suggestions are creating suggestions for past dates. IE 2017 for a few new PO suggestions. Anyone have any clue why this would happen?
We’re also trying to figure out how to turn off change orders so EPICOR just kicks out new PO suggestions.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
To stop Epicor from creating Change Suggestions, check the ‘Lock Quantity’ box on the PO. We created a BPM to do this for us when a new PO is created.
What parameters do you have set when running generate suggetions? Are you also running MRP?
Great suggestion! Where is the “Lock Qty” box?
On the PO Release tab.
Will this also stop expedite/cancel changes?
Yes, we are also running MRP. The parameters for the nightly regenerative are:
Cutoff Date: 1st of month + 4 months, dynamic
Then it’s only against purchased items. No other settings have been changed.
Are you running your suggestions separate than MRP?
Yes.
You don’t need to run both. If your part is checked for Process MRP and Generate Suggestions MRP will run the suggestions. Do you have Allow Historical Dates turned off?
The generate PO suggestions box under Part > Sites is checked. Historical dates is not checked on the Generate PO suggestions parameters.
I feel like I’m missing something here. Would MRP create POs if we did check process MRP on raw (purchased) materials?
No it would not but why not let MRP do all the work, just curious. Your business may have a reason.
Can you tell where the demand is coming from?
Demand for raw materials is created by MRP (and some manual) job creation. The idea is to automate as much of the PO creation as we can. MRP is currently used only in semi-finished goods, which is a bit like a postponement program.