Hi Markus,
My guess is it has to do with the material reservation for the order. If there is only material for 50 pieces reserved, then it limits you there. You may also need to make sure the ERP side of things allows such overages. As there are limits in ME, they also have to correspond to those in ERP.
Overages are much easier to manage if the operation is a continuous process and the materials consumed are not part of the order, but common (and consumable) materials to the processing line. Think of plastic soda bottles which consumes the plastic raw material at the point of blow molding. There is a certain amount of overage built in the quantities of materials issued to the line, or it is simply considered part of the equipment. So the COGS (cost of goods sold) is all the bottles produced considering the labor and equipment costs and consumption of the plastic for the whole line apportioned across each bottle produced in a given period of time. Those materials are not considered as part of the order, but rather consumables to run the production equipment or perhaps a simpler matter of how much gas do you use to go to the grocery store. One doesn't consider the gasoline as part of the cost of the groceries. It is simply required to run the vehicle which retrieves them.
What is Operation ...-0010? Is that some sort of Kitting operation?
Cheers, Mike
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