I think you can add Queue Time After to the production route. See Production/ Setup/ Route Groups.
--- In Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com, "edwardjosling" <edwardjosl...@...> wrote: > > Hi All > > I have a query and hope that someone can help. > > We are using BOM's for final products with one level of components. The > company do not produce themselves, but is subcontracting the production. The > company is responsible for buying the components to be delivered to the third > party production facility. We use MRP (based on sales forecast) to derive > production and purchases order and requirement dates. > > We use lead times for both production and components to derive delivery and > order dates. The standard lead time for production is 30 days, but we need > to give the instruction to produce 60 days before the order (thus an > additional 30 days to standard lead time). We specify on the item coverage a > production lead time as 60 days. > > Standard purchase lead time for components are 30 days. When the MRP has run > and we do a explosion, the problem is that the requirement date for the > components are 30 days from the order date on the production, thus we will > buy the components 30 days early (because of the extended production lead > time). > > We need to forward the purchase order date to reflect the "actual" > requirement date for the component on the production order. > > Any help how to accomplish this would be appreciated. > Eddie >