Use this screen to define how data will be reported in the summary availability report and inquiry. You can specify the number of future weekly and monthly buckets for which you want to display supply and demand. You can also specify the ending day of your production week. The system will use this to determine the ending dates of each of the weekly buckets. In addition, you can specify whether or not you want the system to suppress certain reschedule messages if they are within a specified number of days of what they should be.
Set up this screen when you initialize Costpoint Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and maintain it whenever changes are needed to the control parameters.
Enter the number of weekly buckets, starting from the current date, to include on the summary report and inquiry.
Enter the number of monthly buckets, starting when the weekly periods end, to include on the summary report and inquiry.
Use the drop-down box to select the ending day of the production week.
Enter the maximum number of days that a manufacturing order can be early before a reschedule message is included on the MRP Action Message Report.
Enter the maximum number of days that a manufacturing order can be late before a reschedule message is included on the MRP Action Message Report.
Enter the maximum number of days that a purchase order or requisition can be early before a reschedule message is included on the MRP Action Message Report.
Enter the maximum number of days that a purchase order or requisition can be late before a reschedule message is included on the MRP Action Message Report.