Handling Inventory Part Availability Exceptions—Exercises
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Basic Data Setup
Inventory Locations
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up
the inventory locations to be used when performing the
main exercise.
Windows:
Inventory Locations
- On the Inventory Locations
window, create inventory locations of the following types: Arrival, Quality Assurance, and Picking.
General exercise for
Entering Inventory Locations
Purchase/Inventory/Sales Part
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create
the part data entries necessary for running the main
exercise.
Windows:
New Part Assistant
- Create XX-58-401, and XX-58-402 as purchased, inventory, and sales parts by using the
New Part Assistant. Use supplier 5000.
General exercise for
Purchased Part
General exercise for
Stored Sales Part
Required Data
Preparing Part Data
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to enter data to receive different exception
messages.
- Specify the planning parameters for your inventory parts
using the
Inventory Part/Planning Data window. Make sure that safety stock is higher than
the quantity on hand for one part.
- Receive a quantity you want for one of the parts.
- Create and release a purchase order line for part XX-58-401. The quantity
received should make the quantity on hand to exceed the safety stock plus
the total demand.
- Create and release a purchase order line for part XX-58-402. Set
the planned delivery date to yesterday's date.
Main Exercises
Purpose: The purpose of this exercises is to learn to create and handle inventory part availability
exception messages.
Windows:
Generate Inventory Part Availability Exceptions
Inventory Part Availability Exceptions
Inventory Part Availability Planning
You have got a phone call from the sales department that availability is low for a certain product. To verify that there
are no general
errors in supply planning, you decide to check all the parts controlled by one of your planners.
- Open the
Generate Inventory Part Availability Exceptions dialog box.
- Enter the selections of your choice, or leave the default values displayed
in the dialog box.
- Click OK to run the job online.
The availability exceptions will be created.
- Open the Inventory Part Availability Exceptions window and search for
the exceptions created for your parts.
- Verify that the exceptions created are correctly created. Select a line, right-click and
then click Inventory Part Availability Planning.
- Take appropriate action, e.g., create an additional supply, or cancel an existing supply.
- When you have finished, select the line, right click
and then click Confirm. This will tick-off the exception from the list. Optionally, you
can enter a note.
- Query for the messages that have not been confirmed
as yet by using the Confirm field in the
Query dialog
box.