Use this screen to define the options you will use when operating Costpoint Material Requirements Planning.

Most of the parameters control how MRP will perform its functions, but you can use the Default Values group box to define default values for planned orders.

This application consists of the Settings block and the Corporate Settings block. The Settings block contains all the company settings that relate to MRP processes for the company to which your user ID is assigned. The Corporate Settings block contains all the corporate-wide MRP process settings, which you can modify if your user ID is assigned to the matching company ID. Otherwise, these corporate settings are display-only. If you select the Process MRP by Company check box in the Corporate Settings block and execute the MRP process (via the Update Material Requirements Plan screen), Costpoint will update MRP data separately for each company. If you clear the Process MRP by Company check box and execute the MRP process, Costpoint will update MRP data for all companies.

If you clear the Process MRP by Company check box, and the Separate Items by Company check box is cleared on the Configure Product Definition Settings screen in Costpoint Product Definition, you can plan materials requirements for all companies by selecting the Plan MRP by Company check box. If you plan materials requirements for all companies, you can use the excess supply of one company to meet the requirements of another. This will affect only common stock parts (where the Common Stk check box is selected on the Planning subtask of the Manage Parts screen in Costpoint Product Definition) and project inventory for which the All Projects MRP Project Planning Option is selected (on the Inventory Projects screen in Costpoint Inventory). After you execute MRP, the company planning option will also determine whether different users can see other companies' supply and demand.