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
