iPurchase MRP Action Center

What are MRP Action Messages and Planned Orders?

  • Action messages suggest courses of action to resolve problems found by MRP.
  • Action messages recommend the actions a planner should take to balance supply with demand, such as rescheduling, canceling, or releasing orders.
  • MRP produces orders based on demand. The status of these orders is planned. They can be for manufactured, purchased items and workorders:
    • You release the orders for manufactured items as workorders
    • You release the orders for purchased parts as requisitions
    • Planned orders can be changed by subsequent MRP runs.

Why Simplify the Management of MRP Planned Orders?

  • Buyers spending too much time managing MRP Action Messages (using tools such as Excel)!
  • Buyers spending too much time processing a Planned Order into a Purchase Order (multiple steps required to create PO).
  • Planned Orders not processed due to ‘missed’ Action Messages.
  • MRP Purchase Orders not updated due to ‘missed’ Action Messages.

MRP Action Center Overview: Integrated with QAD MRP

  • One-Click integration to Create/Change Purchase Orders based on Action Messages
  • Select Messages individually or Select groups of related messages
  • Audit History of all actions performed by user and date
  • Export Actions to Excel
  • Ability to ignore messages for later processing
  • Color coded for easy message identification

QAD MRP Message

iPurchase Action Taken

Cancel Purchase Order Cancels QAD PO Line Item(s)
(De-) Expedite Purchase Order Revises QAD PO Line Item Due Date
Past Due Purchase Order Revises Revises QAD PO Line Item Due Date
Release Due for Planned Order Creates Creates iPurchase PO Requisition
Release Past Due for Planned Order Creates iPurchase PO Requisition

iPurchase MRP Action Center screen.