Next Level Demand

Hi ​@ahmedaboukhadra,

Check out the following community post:
What is meant by ‘Next level demand’? | IFS Community

Thanks,

Sarasi

hi ​@sdhalk  thanks for your reply, I checked this post already, but the issue is that the shop order requisition sometimes is generated and other times it is not, I don’t know what to track as it is totally different from MRP

Hi ​@ahmedaboukhadra,

The key reasons shop order requisitions are not generated under method N can be:

• No Actual Demand Has Been Triggered Yet

  • If there's no customer order, shop order, or manual demand requiring the part, nothing will be generated. MRP won't touch it.

• Parent Shop Order Has Not Been Created

  • Since Method N reacts to next-level demand, the part must be included in the structure of a parent part. That parent part must have a shop order or customer order in place — only then will the system create a demand-driven requisition.

• Requisition is Waiting on Shop Order Release

  • If the parent shop order exists but hasn't been released, demand-driven child orders may not be created yet. Many configurations wait for release before triggering lower-level demand.

• Inventory is Sufficient

  • If current stock levels fulfill the demand from the parent shop order or customer order, no new requisition will be generated — as per the pull principle.

What you got to understand here is the pull principal. Here, materials or parts are only produced or ordered when there is actual demand — rather than forecasting or planning ahead. No inventory is created just in case — it’s created just in time.

HI ​@Yathartha Karunananda 

Thank you for your reply, regarding third point (Requisition is Waiting on Shop Order Release),

here I have a question, after parent shop order release should MRP run before generating shop order requisition for child orders?