Rough Cut Planning – Scheduling, Material Availability, and Promise Dates

Hello community,

I’m working on enhancing our use of Rough Cut Planning in Acumatica Manufacturing and wanted to share my setup, the process I’m following, and a key question about how scheduling handles material availability.

🔧 Setup

• We are using Rough Cut Planning to schedule and manage production orders.

• Items in our BOM are flagged with Check Material Availability.

• Components can be a mix of:

  • Purchased materials (with confirmed promise dates on POs).

  • Manufactured materials (supplied from other production orders).

▶ Process

1. From Rough Cut Planning, we run the Schedule action on a group of production orders.

2. The system assigns start and finish dates based on constraint dates, resource availability, and current setup.

3. For items with Check Material Availability, I expect scheduling to respect:

   • Promise dates from purchase orders for purchased components.

   • Finish dates of sub-production orders for manufactured components.

❓ My Question

When the product is set up to check for material availability:

• Does the Schedule action in Rough Cut Planning always respect the promise date of purchased materials?

• Similarly, does it respect the end date of manufactured sub-orders so that parent orders won’t start before components are available?

I want to confirm whether scheduling logic automatically pushes parent orders based on these constraints, or if additional configuration is needed (for example, through MRP or other planning parameters).

👂 Has anyone else worked through this setup? How do you handle ensuring that scheduling dates align with PO promise dates and sub-production order finish dates?

Thanks in advance!