Reserve or Unreserve Material Demand
Explanation
This activity is used to manually reserve or unreserve inventory parts for
a maintenance order. This is done by allocating or removing the allocation of
material against the maintenance order.
To reserve a part for a maintenance order:
- Click the Material tab from the
Manage Maintenance Event page. If you are working
with the Execution Logic Structure, select the relevant node in the graphical
object structure from the Execution Logic Structure
page and click the Material tab.
- Select the part line and then click the
Reserve Manually
option
to open the
Manual Reservation dialog. All inventory parts for the selected part,
filtered on the required ownership and owner, will be displayed in the
list. Note that when company owned stock is required, all company owned
and consignment type inventory parts will be shown in the list. For
customer owned stock, only the customer owned parts for the given
customer will be shown and for supplier loaned stock, only the supplier
loaned parts for the given supplier will be shown in the list. Select
the relevant part line and enter the quantity of material you want
reserved.
- Verify the quantity you have entered is displayed in the Qty Reserved
field for the relevant part line. You can also verify whether the reserved
quantity is shown on the demand line by selecting the part line and then
clicking the Inventory Part Availability Planning option.
To remove the reservation of a part from a maintenance order:
- Click the Material tab from the
Manage Maintenance Event page. If you are working
with the Execution Logic Structure, select the relevant node in the graphical
object structure from the Execution Logic Structure
page and click the Material tab.
- Select the part line and then click the Unreserve option to open
the Unreserve
Part dialog. In the Unreserve Qty field, enter the quantity
of material you want to unreserve.
Prerequisites
- A maintenance order with distribution type Work Order or Execution
Logic Structure must have been created. The maintenance order must exist
in the Under Preparation status.
- Material demands must exist for the maintenance order and these demands
must have been released. For more information, refer the
Release Demands activity.
System Effects
As a result of this activity, material is reserved or unreserved for the
maintenance order.