@bencrooks No Inventory Planning Display do not maintain link with Sales order or the parent production order.
Using the Create Production Order form is suggested to maintain links.
In 24R2, we are introducing “Generate Orders for Subassembly” feature in the Inventory Planning display form, that will allow maintaining parent and child production order links.
Some MTO Manufacturers setup their subassemblies as Phantoms so when the Production Order is created, the entire multi-level BOM is built out in one Production Order.
@bencrooks No Inventory Planning Display do not maintain link with Sales order or the parent production order.
Using the Create Production Order form is suggested to maintain links.
In 24R2, we are introducing “Generate Orders for Subassembly” feature in the Inventory Planning display form, that will allow maintaining parent and child production order links.
I am very interested in how this functions. Ill be on the lookout for 24R2 release notes! Would it make sense for inventory planning to LINK production orders to sales order when MTO flag is on? Not sure how feature requests work in Acumatica (were integrating now, not yet live).
@bencrooks,
Inventory planning (MRP) only looks at supply and demand by dates and links are not currently considered.
I would explore creating production orders on the Create Production Order (AM510000) form prior to running Regenerate Inventory Planning (MRP) that way MTO sales orders will have the production order linked to the sales order.
Regarding feature requests, you can search product ideas by the functional area and vote on an idea you would like to see added to the product. For example here is a link to the product ideas in the manufacturing area https://community.acumatica.com/ideas?filters%5BproductArea%5D%5B0%5D=Manufacturing
If you don’t find what you are looking for you can always create a new idea. The more votes that an idea has the more likely the idea will be incorporated into the product. The manufacturing product team always looks at the ideas on the community page when considering features to add into the product.
Glad to have you on communities!
Sincerely,
Andre St. Amour
I think that this is a big miss on the Inventory Planning, as the information is all in there in the background so it should know how to link it. When you are using MRP as your source of control for manufacturing but need to maintain the link to the SO, it seems odd that you have to go in and create the production order first, to then run MRP. This is especially problematic when you run MRP on a schedule, but folks that review and release production orders work on a different schedule.
Many shops that need to keep this link together want to be able to rely on MRP for managing Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Transfers, and this inability to link removes that and adds both steps and confusion to the process.