MRP purchase orders consolidation

Question

Hi
In the MRP order recommendations section I would like to combine all the purchase orders that have the same supplier and due date but different item in each one.(one supplier is providing 200 different items for our company).
It is now consolidationg the total quantity of an item in 1 single purchase order but I was wondering if we can do the same for different  items from  the same supplier.
thanks for your help
Edited by: shampisr on Jun 16, 2011 1:18 PM

Answer 1

There is a better way to do this.
On the order recommendation window, click the form settings window. Go to the document window. Select Consolidate Recommendations.
These are the rule for document grouping:
For purchase orders and purchase quotations, group recommendations with the same vendor into one purchase order or purchase quotation.
The consolidated document may contain multiple lines due to different warehouses, items, due dates, and delivery dates.
For production orders, group recommendations with the same due date into one production order.
You can manually change the Due Date for recommendations. After you make the changes, the application takes the changed due date into calculation.
For inventory transfer requests, group the recommendations with the same From Warehouse and Due Date.
Finally, if you have two lines in a PO order recommendation with different dates and you change the delivery date to the same date, it will become one line in a document and the quantities combined.
What sucks is that quantity based BP special prices do not get applied in the PO document for the new quantity based prices (if you set that up). When you try to change the pricing in the PO to force it to recalculate, it will not, as it appears to be using the order recommendation prices that were generated prior  to the PO creation. If you make a new line in the same PO for the same part, quantity based BP special prices will work. Go figure!
It also appears that a developer made some enhancements to the basic MRP to solve that issue. See slide 15.
http://www.slideshare.net/keithetaylor/material-planning-for-sap-business-one
I know this is an old post but maybe this will help someone.