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Best practice for project costing in a modular manufacturing business
I've just started working for a Modular construction business that is experiencing rapid growth. A couple of years ago, they implemented NetSuite (moving from Xero) and its been designed for a small construction business. I'm an accountant with just enough systems knowledge to be dangerous, so I've been told 😉 I've worked…
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Planned Orders not reflecting in order items
Hi Everyone, I have created a Demand Plan and ran MRP, which successfully generated Planned Purchase Orders in the Supply Planning Workbench. However, when I navigate to Supply Planning > Order Items, I am unable to see the Planned Purchase Orders. Because of this, I am unable to convert them into Actual Purchase Orders.…
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NSC | Using Arm’s Length Intercompany Transfers with Supply Planning
Scenario: The user enabled Supply Planning and configured Planning Rules to generate inventory transfers between locations. While testing, Supply Planning successfully proposed Intercompany Transfer Orders when inventory movement between subsidiaries was required. However, the business requirement was to use Arm’s Length…
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Duplicate builds in MRP
Hello, We are having an issue with MRP. We keep getting duplicate Work Orders for several items. This doesn't appear to be happening on POs, only WOs. For example, qty 150 for item X on a work order for DEC 29, and then another qty 150 for item X on DEC 31. Why wouldn't this be qty 300 on DEC 29 if both are really needed?…
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Insufficent Lead Time not showing Planned PO #
Hi all, Apologies if this information is elsewhere - I am quite new to NetSuite and still learning. I am looking through our Exception tab in our Planning Workbench and trying to make sense of things… I have come across many exceptions that indicate "insufficient lead time" for a proposed PO or WO, but they don't actually…
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Procurement Vs Demand Creation
Hello- My Boss is looking to be able to measure a metric for Purchased date vs Demand Creation. Basically, he wants to know the variance between when demand was entered for a part vs when Procurement purchased the item. I have been racking my brain on how I could pull this information off in NS. No such luck. The supply…
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How to create Arms Length Intercompany Transfers from Supply Planning
I have Supply Planning turned on and am successfully testing it in a demo system where various items are assigned to a Planning Item Category. I have a Planning Rule defined to define locations where product is to be transferred from another location. When running Supply Planning, it proposes transfers when the planning…
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Allocate Button on transfer orders
Hi, Is it NetSuite native functionality to not have the 'Allocate' button functionality on transfer orders with supply allocation switched on in NetSuite? The button is displayed on sales orders so wondering why it isnt displayed on transfer orders.
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NSC | Location > Include in Supply Planning > Greyed out
Scenario User wants to uncheck the "INCLUDE IN SUPPLY PLANNING" checkbox for a specific location in NetSuite because you do not want the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system to calculate supply for that location. However, the checkbox is disabled (greyed out), preventing you from unchecking it. This issue occurs…
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View where the demand originated in supply plan (Search or Report)
I need some help. I'm trying to hold Procurement accountable by creating a report I can export into Excel for on time ordering. the supply plan doesn't show where the demand originated from. It just shows the quantity and the need by date. Is it possible: to have the supply plan show the Work order/ Sales order per line…