AX 2012 R3 CU8 - Raw materials requirement for a group of production orders

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Hi everybody,

As the title of my post says, i'm trying to know raw material requirements for a group of production orders. My intention is to have a consolidated view to achieve the needs of a group of production order which are going to be started in the following days (i.e 7 days).

As raw materials need to be transfer for a different warehouse, i need to know if any inquire or transaction exists to see the whole quantity of items that i will need to accomplish with a selected group of production orders.

Up to now, the only idea that i got is to run a MRP, however i'm trying to know is another transaction or inquiry is available to avoid running a MRP.

I would also like to know if there is any way to the calculation to be done for i higher quantity instead of the exactly quantity needed, because there might be differences in consumption (i.e if according to the BOM i will need exactly 20ea of item A to start 3 production orders, i would like to know if AX can suggest a 10% else).

Thanks for your time!

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Fredrik Sætre 12,644 on at

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You can use the delivery schedule or net requirements to view this and then make your own purchases based on that... (using a manual plan group)

You can accept a 10% higher receipt then ordered, but there are no quantity safety margin, though I would love to see that made. Do a feature request for that please! Maybe your vendor can make sure to send you 10% extra?

You can use standard order settings to make standard order sizes and safety stock that can help you maintain a certain level of stock at all times. But that is as far as you can go.

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Hi Frederik, thanks for your answer!

I think i didn't explain myself well. When i said that i needed to transfer raw materials from a different warehouse, i meant that i have already purchased items but they are in a different warehouse (of my own) than they need to be used for production.

I have one warehouse where items are purchased and stored, and another warehouse where finished goods are produced.

So, my intention is to get a kind of inquiry / report or to use another transaction to know the needs of raw materials (consolidated if the same item is requiered for more than one production order) that should be transfer from the storage warehouse to the production warehouse. With that information, i could create the transfer order to release it later and create works (this is because, as far as i know, i'm not able to create the raw material picking work for a different warehouse than i'm trying to produce).

Sorry about my bad explanation and hope i made it better now!

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You have 3 warehouses: Raw materials, and Finished goods, and 'Raw materials being consumed by production'. That's the warehouse you add to your BOM lines, and you flag it as being refilled from the Raw materials warehouse. Then when you run master planning you get Planned transfer orders from Raw materials into 'Raw materials being consumed by production'. You can setup item coverage records so that you consolidated demand (one planned transfer order per 7 days for instance) and you can setup order multiple (pack sizes) that'll give you a bit of extra coverage - but I don't know of any way to add a safety percentage - other than a scrap factor, or consumption rounding on the BOM lines, and you probably don't want that.

You can setup a master plan (call it something like Transfer) with a short 7 to 14 day coverage time fence and exclude forecasts and run it across your raw materials only (not your finished goods) and you'll get planned transfer orders that only relate to production orders.

Hope this helps.

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Hi Tim, thank you very much for your answer, you gave me a detailed way of how to setup what i was looking for!

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Fredrik Sætre 12,644 on at

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So the scrap handling solved your issue with getting stock margins right?

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It's an option to get stock safety margins, however i prefer not to use it because it will affect my cost estimation.

What i have done is to manually edit the transfer order once it has been firm. It's not a good solution, but it can be done accoding to the worker policy and it will not affect the the cost and consuption estimation.

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