MRP supports the ability to group like demand into the same production order.

If you need 1-to-1 linking, you need to generate the production order from the sales order.  Or associate the production order back to the sales order after it is created.

Understood.

Thanks for verifying!

Hi @angierowley75 - You say here that “MRP supports the ability to group like demand into the same production order.” - Are you able to elaborate a little more on this? 

I’m new to MRP and struggling a bit where we have a series of Sales Orders for smaller quantities and then a single Planned Production Orders to satisfy that sum of that demand, but it seems that MRP is doubling up that demand on the components and subassemblies.  

I believe it may be doing this because the dates for the Production Orders follow after the Sales Orders (supplying after the demand, which I recognize MRP does not like).

Is there any tricks or other settings that might help in getting MRP to group that demand into the planned production orders? 

Angie,

Many of our clients bring up this and believe it is a flaw. Is there any plans to have production orders that are created from the MRP screen, which are Marked for Production on a sales order, that the link be created and displayed in the SO Line and Production Order Maintenance Reference tab? Perhaps this could be a setting they select in MRP preferences.

Agree with ​@jeffbeck10 . While using the Create Production Orders screen does automatically link the sales order to the prod order, it is cumbersome when you have multiple levels of BOMs with subassemblies ex: you need to create the production orders for the SO line items first, then check each of those prod orders’ critical materials, generate those subassemblies if you do not already have them and so on.

MRP solves the above issue by essentially displaying all critical materials needed to complete an SO, and even displays the SO # all the way down to lower level BOMs (screenshot below). This is exactly what the client needs, however, they lose the visibility of tracking the production order statuses by Sales Order after creating the production orders through MRP.

I agree that it should be an optional setting somewhere as other companies may want the flexibility of not linking to sales orders.

(If anyone has any other ideas on how to track production order statuses by SO, please let me know.)

We have some ideas for improvement on the Roadmap - I was answering the question asked.

I would encourage you to create an Idea and document your Use Case so as we look to enhance the product the Product team can reach out for more input.

Thanks, ​@angierowley75 !