My company is testing moving away from using make to stock on every order and instead having a majority of orders be make direct. We have a handful of customers we forecast and are trying to see if we can use forecast in tandem with make direct.
Testing so far has provided poor results. The forecast quantity does get consumed by make direct orders within the forecast window, but active jobs made to satisfy the forecasted quantity, rather than update their demand links, instead give a suggestion to kill and MRP creates brand new jobs for the make direct order.
Is there a setting/process/other to have the demand links on active forecast driven jobs get updated to the new demand “make direct order” source?
If not, can anyone tell me why a make direct order can consume forecast quantity?
Thanks for any help