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A number of settings are available to control how material calculations are performed. Material status is calculated based on the supply and demand settings within company settings, MRP import & rules. Include Past Active job orders Include past active job orders is a setting that helps deal with job orders with a due date less or earlier than today. These are considered already in the past but may still be active. It is not possible to consume materials in the past, so how do we want to see these job orders from a material viewpoint? Users can completely exclude these job orders from the calculation (and you will see those with an X) by not checking this box. Or users can include those job orders in the material calculation but look at a different start date. By default, this effective start date is set to today, or you can consider it into the future (i.e. +10 days). This helps answer the question when will the materials for late job orders be available? You should really reschedule these job orders for the date when they will be kit clear or leave them as they are and enable material validation to include them. If you include past active job orders, it is difficult to know what is available tomorrow. So, the setting of "today" lets Visual APS know that the job order is late but the replenishment will occur today and that material will be available. The stock for tomorrow will include the past due quantities. Group Locations In Group locations the location used in the calculation for material requirements is read from the bill of material captured against the job order. Sometimes the stock on hand in the default location is not enough but stock may be available at another location and you want to include another location in the material calculation. For that reason, Visual APS has a function to group locations together. When grouping locations all stock movements for the grouped locations can be viewed in the stock information window. |
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