When calculating the planned orders, including the agreements, the quantity registered on active agreements should be seen as orders are currently. This way, agreed commitments can be taken into account when calculating an MRP run with this specific master plan type.
This can be compared to the quotation and requisitions in the existing setup.
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This is more of a commitment expressed by customers without a firmed delivery date. Such demands triggers to replenish the derived required items having long lead time which otherwise can't be covered with sales/production lead time.
Moreover, this becomes routine process in a contract manufacturing setup wherein customers propose to procure and cover the raw material requirement well before they release the exact deliver schedule or firmed sales order.
Category: Planning
How can you have a feature like sales agreements, which represents actual demand, and NOT include it in master planning?
Category: Planning
This would be a game changer in terms of our ability to fully utilize MRP and other tools in the platform
Category: Planning
This capability is essential for our Sales and Ops teams to properly record, plan and consume demand that can be calculated against MRP. The absence of this capability requires us to continue to use outside tools and work processes creating gaps in our internal workflows while increasing the potential for mistakes.
Category: Planning
We have customers who have sales agreements for the year worth of products their customers have promised to take along with the delivery date. Customers get certain benefits for putting together an agreement (as they are committing the quantities for the year). It helps in the planning process. Master planning is not much of use at this moment as agreements do not show up as demand and customer uses outside tools for planning
Category: Planning