Creating Planned, Firmed, and Actual orders in MRP

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After the Generate Planned Orders has been run, the system will show all the suggested orders to create. The suggested orders is based on the MRP factors that have been selected on the Planned Orders tab. At this time, the work orders and purchase orders will not show up in Work Order Maintenance or Enter Purchase Orders.

If you agree with the suggested orders, you can update all of the suggested orders as Firmed as follows:

  1. In the Set Flags section criteria, click the Firm Plan option.
  2. Click the Set Value to Unchecked option.
  3. Enter in the warehouse. If the user wants to set all warehouses to Firm, then this field can be left blank.
  4. Click the Set Flags button.
  5. Note: This flag can also be set manually by clicking on the Frm box next to the suggested order.


Once the suggested orders have been firmed, you can generate Actual Orders. To create Actual Orders, follow the steps below:

In the Set Flags section criteria, click the Create Actual option.

  1. Click the Set Value to Unchecked option.
  2. Enter in the warehouse. If the user wants to set all warehouses to Firm, then this field can be left blank.
  3. Click the Set Flags button.
  4. In the Generate section, select the Actual Orders option.
  5. Click on the Orders button.
  6. Click on the Messages tab to review the Actual Work Orders and Purchases Orders created.


    Once Actual Orders have been created, it will generate a Work Order or Purchase Order number.