Two companies are setup for intercompany master scheduling, company A (Manufacturing Company) and B (Selling Company). The planning structure is like this company B produces planned intercompany demand for company A. AX 2012 generates the demand when intercompany master scheduling is executed and upstream multilevel pegging information is created for the planned orders. The only issue is with Future dates. For example, there is an item ‘X’ which requires 90 manufacturing days at Company A these days are setup as inventory lead time in company A. Moreover, it takes 28 days to ship from Company A to company B this is also setup as sales lead time in company A and purchase lead time is 28 days in company B. Now, If sales order is created in today’s date in Company B and intercompany master scheduling executes, intercompany demand is generated and system also generates a futures date for planned orders in Company A and Company B (refer to table below) which considers the lead time of 28 days (purchase lead time) in company B but requirement is to include 28 + 90 days manufacturing lead time because that is the real date on which an order placed today can be received in Company B.
Example:
Summary of Planned Orders
Planned Purchase Order in company B
Item
Quantity
Order Date
Delivery Date
Lead Time Shipping
X
100
12/07/2012
10/08/2012
28 Days
Planned Production Order in company A
Item
Quantity
Order Date
Delivery Date
Lead Time Production
X
100
12/07/2012
10/10/2012
90
Multilevel Pegging Information
Multilevel Pegging in Company B (Selling Company)
Item
Requirement Date
Requested Date
Futures Date
Req. Quantity
Expected Futures Date
Lead Time Shipping
X
08/08/2012
12/07/2012
08/08/2012
100
08/11/2012 (Not calculated right now)
28 Days
Multilevel Pegging in Company A (Manufacturing Company)
Item
Requirement Date
Requested Date
Futures Date
Req. Quantity
Expected Futures Date
Lead Time Shipping
X
10/10/2012
12/07/2012
10/10/2012
100
10/10/2012 (Correct)
90
Now as it can be seen that the Futures date is in October for this order in the manufacturing company but the Futures date is in August for Selling company which shows that the futures date in manufacturing company is not being considered in the selling company for the calculation of futures date. The future date in selling company must be Futures Date of Manufacturing company plus the lead time of Company A.
I have no routes setup in our company A. I use this company A to project our future demand. Moreover, even if we define a route time that will be calculated in the company A and the future dates in company A will be pushed correctly same way in which it is happening now with 90 days lead time for inventory. My issue is, it should display the future message date in my selling company which should be inclusive of 90 days (manufacturing lead time) plus 28 days (selling lead time).
But in your selling company there is no manufacturing lead time, the customer does not care about this (in an normal relationship) this is simply the purchase lead time from the supplier, so you therefore need to set this as the lead time to buy and the selling lead time is the sellilng companies lead time once received from teh manufacturing company.
Yes in our selling company we will only have the purchase lead time because this is what it takes to receive an item from my supplier. Moreover, the thing is my selling company should have 28 days of purchase lead time if i put 90+28 in my selling company then it will calculate it for all the purchases of that item and sometime when the stock is there is my mfg company it should logically take 28 days because i am not producing anything just getting it shipped from supplier to my selling company.
in case of planning the way intercompany master schedulling should behave is that when i have a planned PO in selling company it will have an order date of today and delivery date of 28 days later. As i am creating it today so the future date should consider the 90 days lead time of manufacturer because it is all a part of one intercompany master schedulling chain and this 118 days total should be a future message against my planned order in selling company and this is what AX is not doing
28 days is not my selling lead time it is my shipment time between mfg company and selling company.
Yes in our selling company we will only have the purchase lead time because this is what it takes to receive an item from my supplier. Moreover, the thing is my selling company should have 28 days of purchase lead time if i put 90+28 in my selling company then it will calculate it for all the purchases of that item and sometime when the stock is there is my mfg company it should logically take 28 days because i am not producing anything just getting it shipped from supplier to my selling company.
in case of planning the way intercompany master schedulling should behave is that when i have a planned PO in selling company it will have an order date of today and delivery date of 28 days later. As i am creating it today so the future date should consider the 90 days lead time of manufacturer because it is all a part of one intercompany master schedulling chain and this 118 days total should be a future message against my planned order in selling company and this is what AX is not doing
28 days is not my selling lead time it is my shipment time between mfg company and selling company.
Which leads us back to putting the routes and lead time in company A and having this cascade through the inter-company planning if the item is not in stock in company A.
So we need to have route for that…there is no other solution for it? but one more thing is even if i put it in route will the future date be pushed to my selling company? right now what i can see is future dates are not being pushed to the selling company? Moreover you want me to put this time in the “transit” field of the route?
No I want you to create a route with the true manufacturing time, it is not transit time it is how long it takes to manufacture if they do not have it in stock.
but our time is fix no matter what is the quantity on order we will keep it to 90 days now in route we have setup times like process quantity and no of hours (run time) what should be the possible values in this case then?
Well ultimately you need to define teh times so the system can calculate the manufacturing time and then cascade through to the future dates. You may say 90 days as a guide but once the demand and supply cycle is up with in process manufacturing and defined delivery dates the cascade of actual dates will make everything more accurate. You do however need to test the concept, not one I have played with personnally.
