Hi all,

We are running Baan IV and I have been asked to present to the management team how and what fields Baan uses to back schedule both purchase and production orders (we run MPS/MRP with infinite capacity) and also how it determines a sales order / schedule delivery date.

From what I have gathered, we enter sales orders in manually and also use EDI.

1. Is there a field(s) that will take into account the lead time we give to a customer to ensure that demand does not drop in within lead time (for both order entry and EDI) e.g. if a customers lead time is 8 weeks, delivery date should default to 8 weeks in advance?
2. What fields are used to back schedule for both a production and purchase order?

Having just joined the company and with no real experience of Baan can someone please help?

Thanks and regards

MPS is a backward planning engine. It means it takes the delivery date and then calcualte when the production can be started. You may get a exeception and reschedule messages if there is an issue. Baan MPS doesn't suggest a date when order can be delivered. For this you may have to run finite planning engines.

Arvind Patil

Thanks for the reply. My query related to finding which fields were responsible for calculating the start date of a production & purchase order. In case someone is looking for the same I have so far found the following:
Manufactured MPS Item - Work Centre Resource Unit hr/day, Task Prod Rate, W/C wait time, Item master Order interval & safety time.
MRP Purchase Order - Order Interval, Item master order lead time, Item master safety time
MRP Manufactured Item - Order Interval, Item Master safety time, resource unit hr/day, production rate & safety time
MRP Purchase schedule - Frozen period, Order interval, safety time