I am looking for strategies to offset my jobs from the Sales Orders. I am planning in infinite, and need to spread my jobs out over the month instead of all based on the ship dates. I am planning to use Forecast but am still looking for any other ways to signal the materials to be required before the planned MRP job based on ship date.
Example, Ships at end of the month, only takes a week to build, but want to start build at 1st of the month. How to get parts in by 1st of month?
Not sure which version you are on, but there is the new feature called “Planning Contracts” that could work for this purpose. It acts like a forecast but allows one to allocate inventory or create demand for a particular purpose even before one gets an order. (Useful in Projects module) We are on 10.0.700.4 and it’s not available until 10.1
Mark W.
If the number of jobs is fairly manageable, you can go into the job and
forward schedule from a start date.
If you need to do this in mass use global scheduling to do a group.
Brad
How about Part Class and Receive Time Parameter
I’m on 10.1.4 soon to be .500 Hopefully there will be info on Contracts at Insights… ? I’m new to Epicor and purchasing contracts is completely new.
Curious about what you would set up…
In our system, we use the the Part Class to set a receive time of 3 days.
You can see the affect on the job.
You can do similar cushions on purchased parts. Typically, material required date = operation related start date, but you can add a receive time. So if Material should be in by 3/10, purchasing will get the suggestion to bring it in 3/7
If you have a set number of offset days you need you can do that with with
the receive time to back up the job due date.
If want more hours or days between operations then you can go to the
resource group and add move and or queue hours.
You can see the affects of these on the job scheduling board.
I have also seen people move all the materials to the first operation.
Brad
I have my materials on my second Op, but my first op has no time element, so same thing.
I only want to move selected product lines forward. I am thinking of creating a calendar that blocks out the weeks that I do not want to build and assigning it to those operations that I want to move earlier in time. This will move the jobs earlier into the available days, offset from the shipping date. ? thoughts?
Otherwise, If I always knew that those operations needed to be done 10 days before shipping – I could add 10 days receive time to that operation and this would move the operation 10 more days earlier than the shipping date, correct?
If you do the job scheduling manually, do you backwards schedule? If so you
can set the due date there.
Brad
I would like to let MRP control the jobs until we release to the floor, too much is in flux to schedule the actual jobs. – You can’t schedule unfirm jobs – right? MRP rebuilds them, and the schedule with them… ? MRP is backward scheduling from ship date.
