What If Planning Flags

Flag Description
Accept Requirements The system calculates MRP or APS requirements (also called demands) for this item from its parent item in the bill of material.

For more information, see Accept Requirements.

Accept Requirements If Not End Item The system calculates MRP or APS requirements for phantom items.

For more information, see Phantom Flag.

Co-product Job Specifies the selected record as a co-product job.
Cross Reference Specifies that another demand is cross-referenced to this demand.
Do Not Adjust Lot Size for Min/Multiple Select this field if you do not want this order's end item quantities to be affected by the Order Minimum and Multiple settings. This field affects only the end item quantities; planning for child item production is not affected, regardless of this field's setting. Normally, you select this field for fixed-quantity, single-level manufacturing orders that should not be adjusted for order minimum and multiple.
Do Not Adjust Lot Size for Scrap/Shrinkage Select this field if you do not want this order's end item to be affected by shrinkage and scrap calculations. This field affects only the end item quantities; planning for child item production is not affected, regardless of this field's setting Normally, you select this field for fixed-quantity, single-level manufacturing orders that should not be adjusted for scrap and shrinkage.
Do Not Use Inventory Causes APS to ignore all end item inventory when planning this order. This field is most often used in an ERP integrated setting with manufacturing orders.
Do Not Use Supply Causes APS to ignore all future supply for the end item when planning this order.
Fixed Demand When this field is selected, the Planner plans only the order's subcomponent demands. The component demands are planned to be available at the operation start date or the job start date, depending on the setting of the Plan Materials at Operation Start parameter.
Fixed Supply Causes the Planner to set the supply from the order to be available at the order's due date, rather than floating the availability date as operations are planned. The Supply Time value determines the time of day when the supply will be available.
MRP Item Specifies that the item is produced during standard lead time, no resources are consumed or allocated, and the components are all needed at the start of this lead time.
Must Use Future POs Before Creating PLNs Causes the APS planning engine to consume all purchase orders and inventory before creating a new planned purchase.

See Must Use Future POs Before Creating PLNs for more information.

Pass Requirements For Mfg Item Causes APS to schedule the order's end-item demand, but ignore any manufactured component items defined in the bill of material. You can use this setting when an item is temporarily outsourced or to control processing one level of the bill of material at a time.
Pass Requirements For Purchased Items Causes APS to schedule the order's end-item demand, but ignore any purchased component items defined in the bill of material. You can use this field when an item is temporarily outsourced or to control processing one level of the bill at a time.
Plan Credit Held Customer Orders Specifies that customer orders, or customers, on credit hold should be included in the plan. Selecting this fields causes the system to automatically select the Regeneration option.
Plan Materials at Operation Start Requires the materials for a job or production schedule to be available at the operation's start date or at the job/production schedule's start date. Select this field to plan the materials to be available at the start of the operation in which the materials are used. This method of planning results in a just-in-time material plan. In most cases, you should select this field. Clear this field to plan the materials to be available at the start of the job/production schedule.
Plan on Save Specifies that the Planner will plan the order automatically when the order is saved.
Plan Planned Customer Order Lines Includes customer order lines with a status of Planned in the plan. Selecting this fields causes the system to automatically select the Regeneration option.
Plan Stopped Customer Orders Includes customer orders with a status of Stopped in the plan. Selecting this fields causes the system to automatically select the Regeneration option.
Plan Stopped Job Orders Includes job orders with a status of Stopped in the plan. Selecting this fields causes the system to automatically select the Regeneration option.
Planned Mfg Supply Switching For some types of orders (especially forecasts or master production schedule orders, or orders for items with large Order Minimums), the Planner may create an excess number of planned orders. If an order generates excess supplies, the Planner can allocate those supplies to other orders. The use of existing supplies replaces the other orders' requirements for new part production, reducing the demand on your resources. This parameter enables this switching, and works only during a full run of the Planner.
Planner Only Demand Specifies that only the Planner processes this demand.
Preserve Pre-Released Production Dates Specifies that APS should not move out a job or production schedule item's Projected date to account for changes in the availability of material components.  

For more information,see the topic on Preserve Pre-Released Production Dates.

Pull-up Order Specifies that the system should attempt to plan the order line to meet its Request Date (that is, it pull plans starting from the Request Date). If that plan is not successful, the system attempts to meet the order line's Due Date. If it can achieve the Due Date, the system incrementally attempts to improve the plan between the Request Date and Due Date. If the system cannot plan the order line at least by the Due Date, it push plans the line item from the current date out to the as-soon-as-possible date.

This field affects all order lines on the order. To force a particular order line to ignore this field, set the order line's Due Date equal to its Request Date.

The Pull Up Order option does not override the normal order priority hierarchy. That is, this line item will not be pulled up at the expense of higher-priority orders.

Reorder Point Specifies that the system will replenish this item's inventory when on-hand inventory + on-order (such as from purchase orders) quantity drops below the level specified in the Reorder Point field.
Replenishment Order Specifies this order as a replenishment order. Replenishment orders do not consume any manufactured or delivered end items. End items demanded by replenishment orders are treated as supply that is also available to other demand orders.
Restricted Supply Usage Reserves supply created from this order for use after but not during a full run of the Planner The APS program that generates synchronized manufacturing plans. Useful for situations in which forecasts are created at multiple levels of the BOM; it ensures that forecasts for lower-level components are not consumed by end items.
Scheduler Only Specifies that the routing, or demand, applies only to the Scheduler.
Skip Purchased Components Causes APS to schedule the order's end-item demand, but ignore any purchased component items defined in the bill of material. You can use this field when an item is temporarily outsourced or to control processing one level of the bill at a time.
Stop After Push Causes the demand to stop after the push pass.
Transfer Indicates that the item is primarily a transferred item.
Unconstrained Item Indicates that this item  is unconstrained, with a lead time of zero (for example, floor stock). Screws, brackets, and nails are common examples of unconstrained items.
Unrestricted Mfg Item Indicates that this item is an unrestricted manufactured item. When an unrestricted item is needed, and the order's Do Not Use Inventory option is disabled, the system will always pull this item from inventory (allowing inventory to go negative).
Use Planning Output for Scheduling Specifies that the system should copy the output from the APS Planning activity to the database tables used by the Scheduler output forms and reports.

For more information, see Use Planning Output for Scheduling.

Use Scheduled Times in Planning Select this field to have APS plan the due dates of other demands and delivery of supplies around a job's Projected date. Clear this field if you want APS tousethe current start and end dates defined when the job was initially created or the dates you changed on the job.

For more information, see Use Scheduled Times in Planning.