Hello All,
First post in 2014, I hope you all had a great holiday. I have a question on using the MRP controller in regards to purchasing. We are primarily a repetitive manufacturing facility and are looking to implement a discrete portion of the business. The purchasing process owners are proposing we use a three character commodity code instead of what we have normally do, a buyer code (ei 001) to sort the externally purchased materials. The problem with this is many of the same materials are used in various products and have the potential to cause confusion among the purchasing people (Who is responsible for what materials). We are trying to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of implementing this way, but want to make the we are proposing the best solution as well. Can anybody share their thoughts on using the MRP controller by products for externally procured materials (Pros and Cons) rather than by buyer?