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236 MFG/PRO USER GUIDE — MANUFACTURING
Fig. 11.11
Seasonal Build
Maintenance (22.9)
Ï See “Availableto-Promise”
on
page 231.
Example 600 snowmobiles are scheduled to be completed in July due to
a seasonal build requirement. A rush order for 200 snowmobiles arrives
from Australia for shipment in July. The current production of
snowmobiles would not be promised to that order, since it would be
excluded from the ATP calculation.
MRP plans for the target inventory levels set by seasonal build
requirements. Specifying seasonal build requirements causes MRP to plan
orders to satisfy those requirements and prevents it from issuing action
messages to cancel or delay orders for seasonal build items when their
demand is not yet apparent.
Use Seasonal Build Maintenance (22.9) to create seasonal build forecasts
for items by site. You must define an end date by which you need items in
inventory and a seasonal inventory quantity needed by that end date.
Example If you need 600 snowmobiles available in inventory by
December 1st, you may decide to build them during the previous three
months at a rate of 200 per month. You would then enter the following
values.
Date Seasonal Inventory
09/30/99 200
10/31/99 400
11/30/99 600
12/1/99 1
Setting the seasonal inventory quantity to zero (0) for December 1st
indicates to MFG/PRO that the seasonal build requirement is complete.
This means that the item is now included in ATP calculations and is
considered a source of supply by MRP.