MRP not producing result in approve reqs

[Mark-250]

Hi people
 
The problem:
In opentaps-0.94 Manufacturing->Approve requirements gives me a blank
list even though I have done a Run MRP.
The Inventory event planned gives incomplete results as well.
 
I am not sure if what I am seeing is a bug, configuration issue or just
a misunderstanding on my part. Any suggestions would be gratefully
received.  I posted this message to the opentaps users list and Jacques
Le Roux suggested that this message was more suited to this list.
 
The steps I have taken to repeatably produce this problem:
Add items with lowest level items as raw materials. 3rd level items are
WIPs and 2nd level items are sub-assemblies and the finished product
(V164) is a finished product.
Created a multi-level BOM following the instructions in:
sequoiaerp-0.8-manufacturing-1-create-bill-of-materials-avi.zip and
opentaps-0.9-manuals-v5.zip
Screenshots of the exploded BOM created can be found at:
http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/explodedbom1.png and
http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/explodedbom2.png 
Place an order for a series of finished products, V164 (See screenshot
at http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/order.png
<http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/order.png%29> )
Manufacturing->Run MRPusing called TEST (screenshot at
http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/runmrp.png
<http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/runmrp.png%29> )
I ran the inventory event planned option, which gave strange and
incomplete results (
http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/inventory_event_planned.png ) listing
only the finished product, V164, and the 1st level subassembly,
COREV18A. No raw materials of WIPs are displayed.
Going to approve requirements (
http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/approve_requirements.png ) gave me an
empty result, even if I searched a product (e.g. any of the COREV18A,
V164, etc.) or MRP related queries.
 
What I have done to try to correct the problem so far:
Try to search for a component in the approve requirements screen that I
know is in the BOM. No change. Still a blank result as shown in the
screenshot http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/approve_requirements.png.
Try to change the various components in the BOM to different types.
Currently all COREV18A% items are WIPs, other than COREV18A itself,
which is a subassembly. V164 is a finished product and all the 717%
items are raw materials. Changing the WIPs to raw materials,
subassemblies or finished products does nothing to help.
 
My system:
Linux Fedora Core 6 running with 1.5GB RAM and several GBs of free hard
drive space
I am running opentaps 0.94 with Mysql 5.0 using the set up instructions
for opentaps-mysql integration at
opentaps-0.9-configuring-for-mysql-screenshots.zip
 
Many thanks for any replies and suggestions
Regards
Mark

[Jacopo Cappellato]

Mark,

I have two quick suggestions:

1) you should create the ProductFacility records for your products and
components (this is done in Catalog->Product->Facility screen)

2) you should really try to use the OFBiz trunk, since recently the MRP
has been enhanced

Jacopo

Mark wrote:

> Hi people
>  
> The problem:
> In opentaps-0.94 Manufacturing->Approve requirements gives me a blank
> list even though I have done a Run MRP.
> The Inventory event planned gives incomplete results as well.
>  
> I am not sure if what I am seeing is a bug, configuration issue or just
> a misunderstanding on my part. Any suggestions would be gratefully
> received.  I posted this message to the opentaps users list and Jacques
> Le Roux suggested that this message was more suited to this list.
>  
> The steps I have taken to repeatably produce this problem:
> Add items with lowest level items as raw materials. 3rd level items are
> WIPs and 2nd level items are sub-assemblies and the finished product
> (V164) is a finished product.
> Created a multi-level BOM following the instructions in:
> sequoiaerp-0.8-manufacturing-1-create-bill-of-materials-avi.zip and
> opentaps-0.9-manuals-v5.zip
> Screenshots of the exploded BOM created can be found at:
> http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/explodedbom1.png and
> http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/explodedbom2.png 
> Place an order for a series of finished products, V164 (See screenshot
> at http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/order.png
> <http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/order.png%29> )
> Manufacturing->Run MRPusing called TEST (screenshot at
> http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/runmrp.png
> <http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/runmrp.png%29> )
> I ran the inventory event planned option, which gave strange and
> incomplete results (
> http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/inventory_event_planned.png ) listing
> only the finished product, V164, and the 1st level subassembly,
> COREV18A. No raw materials of WIPs are displayed.
> Going to approve requirements (
> http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/approve_requirements.png ) gave me an
> empty result, even if I searched a product (e.g. any of the COREV18A,
> V164, etc.) or MRP related queries.
>  
> What I have done to try to correct the problem so far:
> Try to search for a component in the approve requirements screen that I
> know is in the BOM. No change. Still a blank result as shown in the
> screenshot http://209.59.210.118/MRPsnapshots/approve_requirements.png.
> Try to change the various components in the BOM to different types.
> Currently all COREV18A% items are WIPs, other than COREV18A itself,
> which is a subassembly. V164 is a finished product and all the 717%
> items are raw materials. Changing the WIPs to raw materials,
> subassemblies or finished products does nothing to help.
>  
> My system:
> Linux Fedora Core 6 running with 1.5GB RAM and several GBs of free hard
> drive space
> I am running opentaps 0.94 with Mysql 5.0 using the set up instructions
> for opentaps-mysql integration at
> opentaps-0.9-configuring-for-mysql-screenshots.zip
>  
> Many thanks for any replies and suggestions
> Regards
> Mark
>