There are cases where suppliers have a requirement that a PO has a minimum order value before considering shipping it (multiple small value orders shipped over the course of a defined period would lead to increased logistics cost). Therefore businesses have to manually check that Planned orders generated from MRP meet this minimum value or manually group multiple POs to meet this minimum order value before firming up, leading to admin tasks and cost. Implementing a minimum order value per supplier and logic that MRP calculates if planned orders meet this value then group orders (or at least highlight to the user when the planned order is at risk of not being accepted by the vendor) would benefit businesses.
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Bit more complex but also have seen this requiment a lot regarding minimum amount of pallets/quantity in total for the order. Would be a big adjustment to group those items during firming.
Category: Planning
This will really help us and I would expect this to also help a number of other businesses!
Category: Planning
Beatriz Nebot Gracia (administrator) on 12/24/2024 11:20:31 AM
Thanks for your input! If it gets voted, we will consider adding it to our long term backlog.
Sincerely,
Beatriz Nebot Gracia
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft