Splitting recommendations
You can raise multiple orders for a specified product, supplier and date combination by splitting the recommendation. You might need to do this if the customer wants a phased delivery of the order.
You cannot split the following:
- Service type items, typically non-stock items Items which do not have a product record set up in Stock Control. Such items are usually bought for a specific job. from estimates Forecast project costs, based on expected costs of labour, machinery and operation times. In Manufacturing, estimates are produced for one-off items or non-repetitive batches. or subcontract operations Work tasks that are subcontracted to external organisations or to other internal departments within the organisation..
- Linked recommendations.
- A new recommendation is created for each split you have made.
- The new lines are displayed in the MRP - Recommendations window.
To split a recommendation
Open: Planning > MRP > Processing > Split Recommendation.
- Select the record number of the recommendation that you want to split.
- Split the adjusted quantity as follows:
- Click in the Quantity column on the first line, and enter the quantity for the first part of the split.
- Click in the Quantity column on the next line, and enter the quantity for the second part of the split.
- Repeat until you have entered the quantities for all the required splits.
- To save the split recommendations, click OK.
The total quantity for the split recommendations must equal the adjusted quantity.
If any of the quantities you enter does not match with the unit of measure The quantity in which a stock item is measured for purchase, sale or storage., the quantity is automatically adjusted to the nearest appropriate value.