Our Supply Chain team has been completely replaced over the last 12-18 months. They are stuggeling with some of the concepts within the Time Phase screen and how to interpret what the data and screen is telling them.
Some background on Part A, which is a Purchased Part:
Inventory
Min. O/H = 0 Max. O/H = 0 Safety Stock = 27,005 Min. Order Qty = 4,000 Lead Time = 98 days
Manufacturing
Min. Lot Size = 60,000 Max. Lot Size = 0 Lot Multiple = 15
Time Phase, is telling us to expedite an existing PO for a quantity of 40,000, which I agree with and can explain to the Supply Chain.
Later on, I see a “Suggestion for Warehouse XX” with a receipt quantity of 60,000. I’m guessing the quantity is being triggered by the Mfg. Min. Lot Size of 60,000. Time Phase is telling us to pull from another warehouse, this quantity of 60,000. I believe the Procurement team is reading this as a PO Suggestion to order 60,000, even though this is a Purchased part, but someone has entered data into the Manufacturing fields.
We have been told by an Epicor consultant, the manufacturing data is ignored if the part is Purchased, but the Supply Chain team seem to believe the Suggestions are being driven by the values in the Mfg. Min. Lot Size and Lot Multiple fields.
Does my logic make sense or am I wrong to listen to the Epicor consultant?
Can anyone shed some insight as to what the definition of “Suggestion for Warehouse” means within the Time Phase data?
Thank you.