Run Capability Check

Explanation

Use this activity to run a capability check for a customer order or sales quotation line. A capability check is an advanced order promising engine which primarily verifies whether the requested delivery date can be met or not. If the requested delivery date cannot be met, a new possible delivery date is calculated. The capability check considers available stock and open supplies, and optionally the available capacity after deducting already planned workload on finite work centers and labor classes. It handles both single and multi-level product structures as well as single and multi-site setups. Optionally interim orders can be saved to hold material and capacity. For further description of the capability check logic and all parameters affecting the calculations, please refer to About Capability Check.

If the inventory part linked to the sales part on the sales quotation or customer order line has Capability Check set to either Reserve and Allocate, Allocate only or Neither Reserve nor Allocate, a capability check will be automatically performed when a new customer order line with supply code DOP Order, Shop Order, Int Purch Trans or Int Purch Dir is saved, or an existing line is edited. The other capability check related settings on Inventory Part/Manufacturing also impact how the capability check runs when it is started automatically. Capability check cannot be run automatically for a sales quotation line.

If Capability Check is set to No Automatic Capability Check, you must manually start the capability check by selecting the relevant customer or sales quotation line, click Capability Check and then Run Capability Check. Before clicking OK in the Capability Check dialog, define the appropriate settings in the Options section:

Note: The capability check is a rather complex calculation and it can be a time consuming activity to run. When the capability check is running you cannot work with the application.

When the calculation is completed, the result of the capability check can be analyzed using the Capability Check Result page.

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