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Hello all,

We want to use the supplier calendar to reflect the impact of Chinese New Year in the planning leadtime. But for some reason I cannot seem to let it work. The steps taken so far:

  1. Created calendar;
  2. Entered exceptions to the calendar (start of CNY + start up time);
  3. Generated the calendar;
  4. Added the calendar to the supplier;
  5. Run Calculate Purchase Leadtime.

I would expect the expected leadtime in the inventory part would be updated. But I do not see a change. Is the correct way to set it up?

 

Any idea's, tips and tricks are highly appreciated.

I believe in order to calculate the lead time based on Supplier Calendar, you need to define the Supplier Manufacturing lead time in Supplier for Purchase Part. Have you already defined the Supplier Manufacturing Lead time in SFPP?

​@koenders 

Purchasing Lead Time in Inventory Part is always considering calendar days is my understanding. It wont consider any exceptions because I think Inventory Part does not know which period of time we are looking at to apply the exception. The period of time is a specific which is determined in the level of orders. So at the order level the exceptions will be considered correctly as expected. 

Sometimes, we might expect the system to just simply consider the holidays ahead of the current date and show in Inventory Part. Somehow, that is not whats happening as I've experienced. Even the date next to Lead Time - Unlimited Supply Date is not a simple reflection of the lead time. I would look at the Purchasing Lead Time as just the no of days. 

I would also expect some clarity here, somehow wont have a big impact as everything is correct in order levels and in IPAP. 

Yes I have thought about using the purchasing leadtime in the supplier for purchase part to simulate the CNY. But this is a manual action for someone to do while exceptions can be put in place for a long time. So I hope there is an instruction from IFS on how to do this?

​@koenders purchase orders and requisitions will reflect the calendar exceptions. It will also consider the SFPP lead times. May I ask, what and why do you need to simulate anything more in SFPP?

The situation is only that calendar exceptions won't be visible in the Inventory Part. 

 

Hello Vimukthi,

Are these exceptions visible in the master schedule then as we are planning there? Any direction you can give me on the steps that I need to take are highly appreciated.

 

best regards

Carlo

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