Global material request status for a single task or fault

When planning and scheduling the start date of tasks or faults, you can review the global material availability status of part requests for the task or fault. The global status indicates whether all of the parts required to complete the task, or fault, and its subtasks are available.

If some of the parts are not available, but the date when the last part request will be fulfilled is known, the Material Availability column shows the ETA date. This helps you to identify tasks that are ready to start, and to schedule those that will be ready at a known date, without having to look at the status of the individual part requests within each task. You can also use the global status to follow up on unfulfilled requests.

You see the Material Availability column the Work Package Details page (Assigned Tasks, Unassigned, and Workscope tabs) and on the Inventory Details page (Open Tasks and Open Faults sub-tabs). You can verify whether the parts required to complete the tasks in a work package are available, and if they are not, when they are expected to be available.

If Material Controllers manually update the ETA on a part request, this information is updated on pages that display the ETA date in the Material Availability column.

If there is no ETA date, then you see one of the following statuses: