What Is a Scheduled Receipt in MRP?

A scheduled receipt is an already-confirmed future supply of an item: an open manufacturing order, an open purchase order, or an in-progress build that will arrive in stock on a known date. It is supply the planner can count on because it has been committed, unlike a planned order that the system has only suggested. When the planning layer calculates what still needs to be made or bought, it subtracts scheduled receipts along with on-hand stock from gross demand, so confirmed incoming orders are never double-covered by a new order.

This entry defines the scheduled receipt and shows how it behaves inside EDGEBIC by User Solutions. For the wider index of planning terms, see the manufacturing glossary, and for the suggested counterpart it eventually becomes firm from, read what is a planned order receipt.

How it works

The mental picture is the 100 units already being built in your own factory. They are not on the shelf yet, but they are coming, and you know when. Because that supply is firm, you can plan around it: you do not need to start another build to cover the same demand. A scheduled receipt is any such committed incoming quantity, whether it comes from your own shop floor or from a supplier.

Scheduled receipts matter most in the netting calculation. Net requirement equals gross requirement minus on-hand inventory minus scheduled receipts. Every confirmed order due before the need date reduces how much still has to be produced or purchased. Leave a scheduled receipt out of the math and the system will over-order, proposing a build to cover demand that an open order already covers.

They also drive the inventory projection over time. As the projection rolls forward period by period, each scheduled receipt lifts the projected available balance in the bucket where it is due and every bucket after, until later demand draws the balance back down. That is how a planner sees whether committed supply is enough to keep stock above safety levels, or whether a new order is needed.

A concrete example

Suppose a product has a demand of 500 units in three weeks. On hand today are 80 units. There is also an open purchase order for 120 units due to arrive in two weeks, before the need date. That open purchase order is a scheduled receipt.

The netting math runs: gross requirement 500, minus 80 on hand, minus 120 scheduled receipt, leaves a net requirement of 300. The system proposes a planned order for 300 rather than 500, because the scheduled receipt already covers 120 of the shortfall. When the purchase order actually arrives and posts to inventory, those 120 units become on-hand stock, the scheduled receipt disappears from the future, and the projection continues from the higher balance.

Had the scheduled receipt been ignored, the plan would have called for 500 new units, and the plant would have built 200 more than it needed, tying up cash and space in surplus stock.

How EDGEBIC uses it

EDGEBIC nets against scheduled receipts in its inventory projection. When it projects a product's balance forward, it starts from the opening on-hand quantity, subtracts each bucket's demand, and adds confirmed future supply in the bucket it is due. Open manufacturing orders and in-progress builds count as scheduled receipts on their completion dates, so the projection does not propose a second build to cover demand a running job already satisfies.

Because the engine knows both the confirmed supply and the true finite schedule behind each open order, the receipt date it nets against is the date the job is actually planned to complete, not a fixed lead-time guess. If a running job slips on the next reschedule, its scheduled receipt moves with it, and the projection updates so the planner sees the real recovery date for the balance.

Scheduled receipts and planned order receipts work together in the projection: the scheduled receipts are the firm supply already committed, and the planned order receipts are the dotted-line suggestions the system adds where the committed supply falls short. To see the suggested counterpart, read what is a planned order receipt. For the netted shortfall the receipts reduce, see what is a net requirement in MRP. And for the running balance receipts lift, read what is projected available balance.