Hi Eric,

Are you using Apps9?

In Apps10 this area was improved a lot. In Apps10 you can really work with MS for top parts and sub-assemblies. In this release we introduced two new demand columns in MS Level 1 Forecast tab:

1. Actual Dependent Demand (Shop Order Component demand and Distribution Order demand)
2. Planned Dependent Demand (Exploded demand from MRP parents or exploded demand from MS parents)

And then on MS Level 1 part level we have a switch indicating if the dependent column should consume forecast or not.

In below example we have ONE forecasts for the Sink&Tap kit and we also have ONE forecast for Sink and ONE forecast for Tap. The dependent demand on the Sink and on the Tap, should not consume of the forecast on this level. In this case we switch off the flag Use Dependent Demand in Forecast Consumption, otherwise the forecast on these parts will be “overconsumed”.

Best Regards,

Mats

@majose , thanks for your reply. But we are using Apps9, does that mean we don’t have this function currently? We are going to upgrade to IFS Cloud, I assume we should also have this function in Cloud, is this correct?

Many thanks.

Hi Eric,

Question no 1: Unfortunately no :-(

Question no 2: Yes :-)

In Apps9: Once you convert the shop order requisition to a shop order for your top part and then run MS Level 1 calculation for your component, then the Level 1 calculation will see the shop order component demand and use it in its calculation. And here comes one issue with Apps9, if you have a local forecast for your sub-assembly, and that forecast represents the “spare part requirement”, the exploded demand from the parent, will consume the spare part forecast, which is not that good. If this is your case then you can look into MRP spares functionality, but that to has some drawback since the component must be set up as Online Consumption in Inventory Part.

I hope you can upgrade soon :-)

Good Luck with your material planning

-Mats