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
>


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