Auto-release Planned Orders

Auto-release Planned Orders

Instead of implementing and releasing planned orders by hand, you can enable the planning process to automatically release planned orders. During the planning run, all qualifying planned orders that fall within the release time fence will be released. Unlike manual release, you cannot modify order dates and quantities or the default implementation details.

Prerequisites

Before the planning process can release planned orders automatically, you must:

   Define an employee, associate a user name to the employee entry, and associate the employee to the application user. 

   Define a planner or planning entity and associate this planner with items you want controlled by the auto-release function.

   Supply Chain Planning users must define a material planner, supply chain planner or planning entity for the current organization and assign them to inventory items at the organization level. 

In addition, the planned orders must meet the following auto-release criteria:

• the new due date lies within the auto-release time fence

• the lead time is not compressed

• the orders are for standard items (will not release models, option classes, and planning items)

• the orders are not for Kanban items

• the orders are for DRP planned items in a DRP plan, MPS planned items in an MPS plan, or MRP planned items in an MRP plan See: Auto-release Planned Orders.

• the release time fence option is defined as anything other than Do not auto-release, Do not release (Kanban), or Null

Auto-release of repetitive schedules is not applicable to repetitively planned items. No material availability check is performed before WIP jobs are released.

   To enable the auto-release function:

1. Navigate to the DRP, MPS, or MRP Names window.

2. Enter an alphanumeric name that identifies a unique material requirements.

3. Check Feedback to monitor the quantity of the planned order that has been implemented as discrete jobs, purchase orders, or purchase requisitions.

This provides the planner visibility of the status of the plan at any point in time.

4. Check Production to enable a plan to auto-release planned orders.

5. Enter an inactive on date on which to disable the plan.

As of this date, you can no longer update the plan, nor use the plan name in the planning process. You are still able to view information and run reports for disabled names.

6. Select Yes to enable the Memory-based Planning Engine. You must enable the Memory-based Planning engine to use the auto-release function.

7. Save your work.

出處:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/A60725_05/html/comnls/us/mrp/planco03.htm

在實際使用上曾經遇過一個問題: 所有的設定都正確, 突然間有一天無法自動核發, 去看了DB 端的Package , 終於查出來問題所在:

   

  1. 由於我們公司需要將所有的工單都自動核發出來, 因此我將 Time Fence 設定的範圍拉到 600天

  2. 算了一下, 600天應該不到兩年對嗎? 錯!! 因為程式中計算是以工作曆的工作日來算, 600天已經超過兩年了

  3. 結果因為我的工作曆範圍只設定了未來的兩年半, 剛剛好不夠, 所以在計算時算不出來

 處理方法:  1. 將 Time Fence 設為 480天  

                    2. 工作曆至少設定2年以上

 結果就正常核發了