Calculate and Analyze Shop Order Planning Alerts
Explanation
Use this activity to perform an availability check for shop order components
and analyze the generated shop order planning alerts.
To run a manual availability check for selected shop orders in Planned
status, select the shop order(s) that you want to include in the check,
click Material Planning and then Run Availability Check.
- In the Pick Plan Date field, you may enter a date to be used as the required
date for the order(s). If this field is left blank, the material allocation
dates on the shop orders will be used instead.
- A message will be displayed to
indicate if any shortages were detected once the check is complete. Note that
all components will be considered during the check regardless of whether they
have the Availability Check option in the Supply
and Demand Controls section on the Inventory Part
page enabled or not.
To calculate and analyze planning alerts by site, use the Calculate
Planning Alerts for Site dialog from the navigator.
- The calculation
considers shop order component lines which are in Planned,
Released, Reserved or Issued
states for component parts which have the Availability Check
option in the Supply and Demand Controls section on
the Inventory Part page enabled.
- The calculation starts
by processing the component lines which are in Released,
Reserved and Issued states after they have
been sorted by the required date of the components. Alerts for these shop
orders are classified as high priority.
- Next it processes the
component lines which are in Planned state, sorted by date
required. These alerts are classified as low priority. By working in this way, the component lines in
Planned
state will not acquire supply from the lines in Released,
Reserved and Issued states.
- In addition to material shortages, planning alerts will be generated
when the required date of a material is past due and material is not
fully issued.
You can identify the orders for which there are shortages via the Planning
Alert Exists field in the Shop Orders page, and
analyze further details using the Planning Alerts - Shop Order
page.
Prerequisites
- This activity requires the existence of a shop order.
- The shop order must be in Planned status if you
want to use the Run Availability Check for a shop
order.
- To calculate planning alerts by site, the component parts must have
the Availability Check option in the Supply and
Demand Controls section on the Inventory Part
page enabled.
System Effects
- If you run the availability check manually, you will see a message
indicating any availability problems that exist.
- If you calculate planning alerts by site, you will be able to see
the results in the Planning Alerts - Shop Order
page once the background job completes.
- In the case of manual checks, the Last Availability Check
field on the Shop Orders page will be updated
with the current date for each order included in the check.
- The Planning Alert Exists option in the
Shop Orders page will indicate the orders which have
shortages.