We are in the early stages of our Epicor Kinetic implementation and are trying to decide if we want to set up our jobs as “Make to Stock” vs. “Make to Order”. Our process aligns more with a “Make to Order” process but our consultant is suggesting that we implement “Make to Stock”, citing that “Make to Order” does not allow for the use of the PCID function. Is there a document that lists the Pro’s and Con’s of “Make to Order” vs. “Make to Stock”?
If your internal process aligns more with Make to Order it would seem like quite a few extra steps to convert everything to stock first. I haven’t used PCID function before and so if that is a big deal to you and Make to stock is the only to get that function to work than that gives you something to think about.
You might want to look into a MTO but Ship from stock. So in other words don’t ship from the job, ship from a sales order release. That might fit your needs on both ends.
We do some of both, although mostly make to stock.
One suggestion: if you need to track jobs to Sales Orders, MTO is probably a better choice. With MRP, job suggestions, PO suggestions, tracking specific jobs to SO is not easy. Hard Pegging is an option, but volume may make that difficult.
Ask to see how a standard Make to Stock job tracks to a SO, by default, just looking at Job Tracker. That may decide for you.
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