Hello,
Just a newbie question. I'm currently playing around with the sample company, the Fabrikam Inc, generating forecast and executing the MRP. I found that for item CHAIR, the MRP is able to identify raw material shortages, which can be seen by the suggested orders created in the MRP Workbench window for item ARM, LEG (the raw materials of CHAIR). However, when I ran MRP for item WATCH, while it generates correctly the planned order released, gross requirement etc. for WATCH, it didn't generate suggested orders for the raw materials shortage. In other words, I can't see any amount for DISPLAY, BATTERY and other raw materials of WATCH although there's actually shortage for those raw materials.
I've tried to compare the BOM and Item card for WATCH and CHAIR and can't find the difference which explains why for one item, the MRP generates suggested orders for raw material shortages, while for the other it doesn't. In both cases, there are indeed raw material shortages.
How does the raw materials shortage being handled by MRP? Is it able to automatically generate MRP-Planned purchase orders for those raw materials?
Hope that somebody can shed some lights ...
PML
