Past-Due Order Triage
Stop past-due production orders from over-ordering your raw materials.
An open in-house production order keeps generating dependent demand for the raw materials it was built to consume. Past due and never going to run, that demand is false — but MRP has already procured the components to cover it, so they land and pile up as overstock. Nothing flags which stale orders are quietly inflating your raw-material inventory.
A triage worklist for past-due in-house production orders — the ones still signaling false demand for the raw materials MRP keeps procuring. It ages every open order, weights each by size and staleness, and sorts it into one clear action — unfirm, close, verify a partial, reschedule, or leave — with the where-used BOM showing which purchased components each stale order is over-ordering, and a snapshot diff that tells the orders actively confirming apart from the dead ones inflating your stock.
About this tool
What Past-Due Order Triage solves
An in-house production order doesn’t just wait in MRP — while it stays open, it keeps generating dependent demand for the raw materials it was built to consume. When the order is past due and never going to run, that demand is false: MRP has already triggered procurement to cover it, so the externally-sourced components arrive, get stored, and pile up as overstock no one ordered on purpose. Past-Due Order Triage finds those stale orders, ages each one, weights it by quantity and how long it’s been late — a phantom score — and sorts it into exactly one action: unfirm a firmed planned order, close a dead one, verify a partial remnant, reschedule to an honest date, or leave it. The where-used BOM shows which purchased components each order is over-ordering, and a snapshot diff tells the orders actively confirming apart from the dead ones quietly inflating raw-material stock. It’s the planning-signal integrity check MRP exception reports were never built to run.