MRP uses daily operational changes to execute all kinds of modifications to elements in its regeneration process. Since your supply chain is in constant flux, you need to understand how MRP reacts to each of the changes, individually and in aggregate. In this webinar, Don Lindsey explains how everyday adjustments impact MRP and offer changes to your process that will improve the accuracy of your MRP calculations. You’ll learn how changes to these critical QAD elements make a difference …

• Purchase Orders, Supplier Schedules and Blanket Orders
• Work Orders
• Sales Orders
• Phantom Structures
• Sales Order Shipments
• Customer Schedules
• and, more

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Questions from the webinar

	How often should I run the MRP Explosion?
The MRP explosions are triggered by various transactions that affect a change in quantity or other. There are 3 regeneration options. 23.1 – Net Change Materials Plan 23.2 – Regenerate Materials Plan 23.3 – Selective Materials Plan I would run Net Change daily, typically at night through Batch. I would run the Regeneration weekly. I would run Selective whenever you want during the day. Just remember that the 23.3 – Selective Material Plan only recalculates that part number. Selective MRP doesn’t look at Components of the Item or Parents. I’d run explosions as often as possible. Since they take very little time to run, I would run often enough to pick up all pertinent changes,
	Can you please explain the difference between a work order and a production order?
Several years ago, a team at QAD took all the functionality that was housed in the separate menu structures of 16.1 – Discrete work orders, 18.22 – Repetitive Work Orders, 17.13 – Flow scheduling, 17 – Kanban, etc. and combined them into one new menu, 16 – Production order. The QAD team also enhanced the 1.4.7 Item Inventory – Item Picking Data functionality with new allocation and issue possibilities for production orders. At the same time, the QAD team combined about 41 menus and functions into 22.10.1 – Master Schedule Workbench and 16.4.1 – Production Order Workbench to enhance the control and execution of the Production Orders. The new functionality offered by Production Order is significant in terms of controlling components, issues, and consumption. You can still use 16.1 – Work Order Maintenance in the later versions of QAD, but I understand once you go to Production Orders, you can’t go back to Work Orders. I would highly recommend a serious look at Production Orders in QAD.
	Why would a company schedule all their work orders at the end of the month and the pull them in on a weekly basis? Would that cause a lot of de-expedite and expedite?
This would definitely cause a lot of unnecessary expedited and de-expedited messages, and it would add to the confusion and extra work in Production Control. It is not a good way to schedule everything at the end of the month and then pull those in during the month whenever they get worked on. I would absolutely not recommend you process your work orders this way. I’ll present a webinar hosted by the West Coast User Group in May to discuss the optimal way to schedule for MRP, entitled Optimizing the Role of MRP in QAD. More details will be coming. Watch this space and our upcoming communications for more information.