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Currently a planned order has 3 statusses: Unprocessed, Approved, Completed.
"Completed" is useless to us, because orders in this status just get deleted and recreated like the unprocessed orders.
We need a new status "Evaluating".
Why? because in our business, the sales delivery date is sometimes unsure.
This is because sometimes the customer provides us consignment items which we need forproduction, but the customer is unsure about the exact delivery date of those components.
1. Purchase: Sometimes proposed MRP purchase orders pegged to a sales order, are soft-approved by the purchase department.
However in some cases the sales departement is not sure yet about the exact promised date.
As of today, purchase department put orders for components in status "approved", and they keep track in an excel file, so they know they have to discuss with the sales department. This is not so efficient.
2. Production: Same case as above. We approve the planned production orders (not firming yet), but in some cases we know that the (sales) delivery date could change. An approved order will stay put and keep the capacity reservation on that day. Now the production planner has to keep track of this (excel), and reschedule the planned order when needed.
What we need:
* extra planned order status "evaluating". Same behaviour as "Approved", meaning that these orders are not deleted by MRP
* an option on the coverage group, to indicate that action messages are automatically applied on planned orders in status "evaluating". This means that if a sales order date has been moved, the planned orders in status "evaluating" will automatically move as well.
* Sequenced planned order: an extra button "Accept and re-evaluate".
We are using MRP sequencing, but hitting "Accept" puts planned orders in status "approved". We would need a button to put them in status "Evaluating" as well.
"Completed" is useless to us, because orders in this status just get deleted and recreated like the unprocessed orders.
We need a new status "Evaluating".
Why? because in our business, the sales delivery date is sometimes unsure.
This is because sometimes the customer provides us consignment items which we need forproduction, but the customer is unsure about the exact delivery date of those components.
1. Purchase: Sometimes proposed MRP purchase orders pegged to a sales order, are soft-approved by the purchase department.
However in some cases the sales departement is not sure yet about the exact promised date.
As of today, purchase department put orders for components in status "approved", and they keep track in an excel file, so they know they have to discuss with the sales department. This is not so efficient.
2. Production: Same case as above. We approve the planned production orders (not firming yet), but in some cases we know that the (sales) delivery date could change. An approved order will stay put and keep the capacity reservation on that day. Now the production planner has to keep track of this (excel), and reschedule the planned order when needed.
What we need:
* extra planned order status "evaluating". Same behaviour as "Approved", meaning that these orders are not deleted by MRP
* an option on the coverage group, to indicate that action messages are automatically applied on planned orders in status "evaluating". This means that if a sales order date has been moved, the planned orders in status "evaluating" will automatically move as well.
* Sequenced planned order: an extra button "Accept and re-evaluate".
We are using MRP sequencing, but hitting "Accept" puts planned orders in status "approved". We would need a button to put them in status "Evaluating" as well.
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