Re: Purchasing order policy

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I agree with Daniel.........
what is the reason for not be able to trust planned orders ?
But
if you have little influence on THAT subject
you MIGHT consider having a huge horizon days parameter...365 days or so.
This will push all planned orders a year out.
Then when orders are firmed up, they get a realistic date
and you create purchase orders for the "soon to be released" orders
not for the future orders. 

Peace
Jim Barry
Belchertown, MA

---- Daniel Warthold <daniel.warthold@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Hi Joe
> 
> 
> I dont think the order policy code will resolve this problem. From what you
> are saying, this is an order management issue.
> 
> BPCS creates planned orders for a reason, usually because there is a
> forecast or a customer order in the system, and there is not enough
> available stock.  If you dont want to execute some planned orders, this is
> symptomatic  of a planning problem right at the source of your MRP demand,
> like having forecasts no one believes in,  or invalid (false) customer
> orders. Either situation will not be corrected by order policy codes, but by
> the appropriate management of the MRP demand input.
> 
> It sounds as if  someone is trying to double guess the whole MRP calculation
> and logic process, which is terribly a bad practice. Might as well turn off
> MRP completely, and do the shop order and purchase order planning outside of
> BPCS.
> 
> Daniel Warthold P. eng CPIM
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe McCormick" <joemccormick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "SSA's BPCS ERP System" <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:09 AM
> Subject: [BPCS-L] Purchasing order policy
> 
> 
> Hi,
> What would be the most suitable order policy to use in order to only
> purchase for firm (not planned ) shop orders. We currently by for both but
> are finding this is contributing to excess inventory as many planned orders
> are not made.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Joe
> 
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