richchipper
Well Known Member
We are in the process of opening our third distribution center / manufacturing facility before the end of the year - West Coast, East Coast, Midwest. We've run MRP with these two facilities for several years, running daily.
We are at a loss as to how to set up our MRP process with this new DC. In essence, it's likely that all three will be sourcing from each other (West Coast could source from either East Coast or Midwest; Midwest could source from either West or East Coast, etc.).
Our third party consulting group is telling us that MRP has to be run one branch at a time (one Branch Relationship at a time) without processing the messages in order for this to work. Our MRP generally runs daily and takes three hours to run. We are a multi-national company and we already struggle with finding a window to run MRP now. This would create a huge problem.
I can't think we are the only company with this issue. Any help we can get in the process would be awesome. I've read a JDETips paper on using DRP / MRP / MPS process, but would love to get a little more granular.
We are at a loss as to how to set up our MRP process with this new DC. In essence, it's likely that all three will be sourcing from each other (West Coast could source from either East Coast or Midwest; Midwest could source from either West or East Coast, etc.).
Our third party consulting group is telling us that MRP has to be run one branch at a time (one Branch Relationship at a time) without processing the messages in order for this to work. Our MRP generally runs daily and takes three hours to run. We are a multi-national company and we already struggle with finding a window to run MRP now. This would create a huge problem.
I can't think we are the only company with this issue. Any help we can get in the process would be awesome. I've read a JDETips paper on using DRP / MRP / MPS process, but would love to get a little more granular.
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