DRP Functions
The functions used as part of DRP processing are grouped on five menus. Most DRP setup and processing occurs at the receiving site. The menus support a separation of functions between receiving and shipping sites.
Use functions on the following menus at the receiving site:
• Source Network Menu (12.1). Use these functions to set up codes that determine the sites that supply an item when demand exists at the receiving site.
• Transportation Management Menu (12.5). Use these functions to set up information about the methods your company uses to ship items from one site to another. This information is used by DRP at the receiving site when it creates intersite requests.
• Distribution Requirements Planning Menu (12.13). Use these functions to calculate gross requirements, generate intersite requests and action messages, review action messages, and optionally approve intersite requests.
• Intersite Requests Menu (12.15). Use these functions to modify intersite requests, transfer demand generated when remote databases are not connected, receive items shipped on distribution orders, and archive and delete closed intersite requests at the receiving site.
Use functions on the following menu at the shipping site:
• Distribution Orders Menu (12.17). Use these functions to optionally modify and confirm intersite requests, group requests into distribution orders, print orders, pick items, ship orders, and archive/delete closed intersite requests at the shipping site. When sites are in domains in different databases, use functions on this menu to import demand created when the databases were disconnected and validate current demand records.