Seasonal Build Maintenance
This program allows incremental buildup and release of inventory. At times, the master scheduler may need incremental inventory build up to a predetermined level. This situation most often occurs for seasonal demand items.
• Need to build up an item’s inventory prior to its expected demand
• Input into the master schedule is required
Although master scheduled orders could be entered to adjust for seasonality, identifying a demand as seasonal build prevents MRP from issuing action messages to cancel or delay orders for those items whose demand is not yet apparent.
In this example 600 units are needed over and above forecast to support a product launch. It is planned to build them at the rate of 200 units per week for the next three weeks. The seasonal build is set up as shown in the slide.
Enter seasonal build inventory into the system using Seasonal Build Maintenance (22.9).
• At the end of the first build week there will be 200 units in inventory.
• At the end of the second build week there will be 400 units in inventory.
• At the end of the third build week there will be 600 units in inventory.
• At the end of the fourth week, set the seasonal inventory to zero. This releases the 600 units to be available.
