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.