Hi,

On the inventory part planning data page, you can enter a safety lead time. If we put this one on 10 days, MRP will create a purchase requitions with the receipt date: need date of the part -10 days.

However, this does not work for directly created orders (DOP generated purchases, CO with supply code Purch Order Trans). There, the “ordered by” date can be adjusted with entering lead times, but the need date remains the real need of the part. The purchase requisition will take that need date as the “wanted receipt date”, so if we don’t adjust this manually on the PO, the part will arrive on the need date. And we would like to built in some buffer.

The parts are not inspected at arrival. We would want that, for example, if our DOP creates a purchase requisition for a part, the wanted receipt date is a few days before the need date of the part. Like the safety lead time for MRP.