Demand management
Demand is communicated through requests for parts and consumables. Demand management involves reserving inventory to fill the requests, procuring inventory that is not available in stock, and issuing inventory to complete maintenance tasks.
Requests for inventory can be part requests or stock requests. Part requests are created for the parts and other inventory required to complete upcoming maintenance work. Stock requests are created to replenish stock when the stock level is low and might result in a shortage.
Stock requests are created automatically by Maintenix to replenish the supply location when stock levels are set and the stock quantity drops below the re-order level. Stock requests can also be created manually.
The basic material demand and response process in Maintenix is as follows:
- Demand comes from scheduled and unscheduled maintenance in the form of part requests.
- When a work package that contains tasks with part requirements is committed or started, or if parts are requested for the work package, Maintenix has the location and the Needed By date for the part requests and attempts to reserve the required parts. Most inventory is reserved automatically.
- Material controllers manually fulfill part requests that Maintenix cannot automatically fulfill.