Optimizing usage of manufactured item supplies

When a parent item is defined with an Order Maximum value, and its component items are defined with Order Minimum values, the system may create excess planned orders. For these items, you can enable Manufactured Supply Switching to allow the system to reallocate those excess supplies appropriately and not generate excess planned orders.

Because this extra processing may slow performance of the Planner regeneration, you should enable it only for items that are likely to create excess planned orders. For example, if the system produces numerous excess planned supplies that you cannot explain, the problem may be caused by this condition, and you should consider using this parameter. Otherwise, do not enable it.

This parameter works only during a plan regeneration. It applies only to manufactured items. To apply the switching, enable the parameter in the ALTPLAN.SSFLAGS field (bit3) AND on each MATL record (FLAGS field, bit10) you want to affect. Disabling the parameter in the ALTPLAN.SSFLAGS field disables it for all items.