Quantity

Enter the quantity that is to be manufactured. The default quantity is the quantity that you registered as the EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) under the Planning tab in the Update Part - Inventory procedure. If you have set a "quantity" term for the part in the preparation, it will be taken into account here. Read more about how terms and conditions affect manufacturing orders under Alternate Preparations and Manufacturing Order.

Max. Quantity

If a max. quantity is entered for a part, you can create several manufacturing orders with the maximum quantity to fulfill the requirement. The Run Netting, Requirement Calculation and manually registered manufacturing orders will then consider the part's maximum quantity. Order suggestions and manufacturing orders will never exceed the max. quantity. If the requirement is larger the current order will be divided into several manufacturing orders with the max. quantity as the largest order quantity. The start and finish periods on the divided orders will be distributed evenly during the period. This to avoid that loading and material requirements will be created against the same finish time. Example: The requirement is 100 pcs (pieces) and the max. quantity for the part is 20 pcs. This means that you need 5 manufacturing orders to fulfill the requirement. (Applies to the part types S and M.)

This applies only if the setting Show max. quantity is activated under Requirements Planning under the Inventory tab in the Settings procedure.

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