Can an item be purchased and manufactured at the same time?
We have an outside processing (painting) process that we soon will be bringing in house. Currently
MRP plans work orders which create OO orders for the *OP process cost. Materials is telling us that
we are not going to be able to cover 100% of the demand in house at least for a while. They would
like the buyer/planner to determine on any given day whether to purchase the parts from our outside
processing supplier, or to do it in house. Which means that we could at any time have both regular work orders
and work orders with associated OO orders open on the same item. Of course, Cost Accounting has a hand in this as well since