Multi-Facility Planning for Configured Items
Here is our specific scenario. We have a manufacturing branch A that makes and ships configured items. A second branch, B, ships replacement parts, including configured subassemblies, for branch A items. Branch B is essentially just a distribution branch that does not have equipment to manufacture or assemble items, just package and ship them.
We use multi-facility planning for discrete items. An order for a discrete item from branch B generates an MRP message to create an 'OT' purchase order in branch B with a related 'ST' transfer order in branch A. Currently for configured items, we follow a different process. We will have a configured assembly, ASSY1, that is manufactured in branch A. We then have a dummy sales level S-ASSY1 that is sold through branch B. An order for S-ASSY1 in branch B creates a child work order for ASSY1 in branch A.