Enhanced MRP

The Enhanced MRP software add-on for Sage MAS 500 will give you answers to your most pressing materials question: Why did MAS 500 suggest ordering the quantities of the items it did? The software will add a demand pegging inquiry to your MRP planning screen. The inquiry will then be displayed in a tree structure that shows the demand sources for a selected item in the material plan. Demand is established through sales orders, transfer orders or work order material issues for required components.

Furthermore, The Enhanced MRP add-on will provide you with expanded action or exception messages to include more detail regarding actual and planned orders. Your exception messages will include item numbers, warehouse location, transaction dates, and quantities. The system will also add new messages options for your late Work Orders and Purchase Orders. The system will also suggested to move work order or purchase dates in or out. If your purchase order falls inside the required lead time, the system will provide you with a warning, so you can make that PO or WO a top priority

The Action Message Report will be updated allowing you to filter and sort by buyer, planner, vendor, warehouse, or whatever field you desire. The action message report includes exception messages and displays the recommended order date for purchase orders and work orders (in addition to including the due date).

Some of the additional features of the system include:

• Change Default Vendor Alternate vendors can be setup for specified items
• Min/Max Purchase Parameters Define a minimum or maximum purchase quantity for purchased items. This will cause MRP to generate a purchase order for the minimum quantity and create a new purchase order if the required quantity exceeds the maximum quantity defined for the inventory record.
• Purchase Multiples Define purchase mutiples for items purchased in cartons, truckloads, cases, etc. ensuring that MRP always generates a PO for the correct order multiple
• Make-to-Order Flag certain inventory items as “make-to-order” causing MRP to generate a dependent pegged work order for your specific sales order based demands.
• Sub Work Orders Create sub work orders at any level within a bill of material structure. Sub Work Orders are automatically created for top-level finished goods when you set a flag