Hello.

In our business, we have manufacturing orders planned several years in advance. This is good, because what we produce takes several days for only 1 unit, and this allows us to plan quite far into the future. There is one issue, however; When the scheduler is run, it first "reserves" all the parts for each of these manufacturing orders, then creates RFQs for the parts, taking into account reordering rules. Only, it seems to be ordering much more than the "maximum quantity" of each part, and I believe this is because it is trying to keep enough in stock for all of the outstanding MOs. This is a problem because we cannot keep 2-3 years worth of parts in stock. 

Is there a way to prevent the scheduler from "reserving" all of the MOs before creating RFQs to satisfy "minimum" and "maximum" quantities of reordering rules?

So for example:

1) Product "A" has minimum: 100, maximum: 200 and a stock of 50

2) There are 5 outstanding MOs that require 50 of product "A" each.

3) When the scheduler runs, it orders 400 of product "A". Presumably to satisfy the outstanding MOs and end up at "maximum quantity" after manufacturing.

We would like the scheduler to order only 150, so that our inventory is never more than 200. This is fine, because the MOs are far far into the future.