30 Day Bucket Fence

This field applies to MRP and APS.

Enter the number of days into the future that the system begins consolidating requirements into planned orders in 30-day buckets. Prior to the time fence, multiple requirements are consolidated into a single planned order, based on the Days Supply field on the Items form. After the time fence, the system looks 30 calendar days into the future, searching for requirements to include when consolidating the planned order quantity.

If the Days Supply field on the Items form for a given item is larger than 30 days, the Days Supply value is used instead of the 30-day bucket fence.

Leaving the 30 Day Bucket Fence field blank disables this feature.

Note:  Consolidation of higher-level requirements into a single-planned order outside of this time fence will consolidate the resulting bill of material requirements of the planned order. This can ripple down the bill of material and affect lower-level requirements within their order lead time. Therefore, cumulative lead time should be considered when establishing this time fence.

See Consolidating Planned Orders for more information.