Set Up Control Programs
Two control programs affect processing in DRP:
• Use DRP Control (12.13.24) to determine if MRP can also plan DRP items. These two functions can be run sequentially. However, when you have DRP items at multiple levels of your product structure, you may want to run them together.
You can also use DRP Control to specify settings related to the use of a Progress AppServer to distribute MRP/DRP tasks among multiple processors.
See
DRP and MRP for details.
• Use Distribution Management Control (12.15.24) to determine how numbering of intersite requests and distribution orders is managed and to set up default values for the Comment field on these documents. See
MRP/DRP Calculations Using AppServer.