Using Part Availability Control—Exercises
IMPORTANT |
It is extremely important
that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your
data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will
compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other
students. Predictable exercise results require that your data
be isolated in your own site. |
Basic Data Setup
Inventory Locations
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to
set up
the basic data required for using the part availability control functionality.
Windows:
Inventory Locations
- Open the
Inventory Locations window.
- Create two warehouses: XX SECTION A and XX SECTION
B.
- Create inventory
locations of the following types: Arrival, Quality Assurance, Picking, Pallet
Delivery, Pallet Buffer, and Picking dedicated to quality assurance within
Inventory.
General exercise for Entering
Inventory Locations
Purchase/Inventory/Sales Part
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to
create part
data entries that are necessary for the part availability control functionality.
Windows:
New Part Assistant
- Open the New Part Assistant.
- Create XX–58–401, XX–58–402, XX–58–403, and XX–58–404 as a purchased, inventory, and sales part. Use
Supplier 5000.
- Create XX–DEF-PAC-PART as a purchased, inventory, and sales part. Use
Supplier 5000.
General exercise for Purchased
Part
General exercise for Stored Sales
Part
Required Data
Receive Inventory Part
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to
receive
parts for use in the main exercises below.
- Receive a small quantity—10 to 100 pcs—of your parts.
- Receive a small quantity—2 pcs—of XX-DEF-PAC-PART
to warehouse XX SECTION A.
General exercise for Receive
Inventory Part
Main Exercise
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to
control application actions at a part/location level, and learn about system
effects when using part availability controls with a different setup.
Windows:
Inventory Basic Data/Part Availability Controls
Inventory Part In Stock
Material Requisition
Inventory Part Availability Planning
Customer Order
Reserve Customer Order Lines
Create Pick List for Customer Orders
Report Picking of Customer Orders
Warehouse Navigator
Transport Task
- Open the Inventory Basic Data window and select the
Part Availability Controls tab and create
a new entry.
- Create four part availability controls, along with descriptions of your
choice, using the information in the table below.
Availability Control ID |
Part Supply Control |
Part Auto Reservation Control |
Part Manual Reservation Control |
Part Order Issue Control |
Part Non-Order Issue Control |
Part Scrap Control |
Part Counting Control |
XXPAC1 |
Nettable |
Automatic Reservation |
Manual Reservation |
Order Issue |
Non-Order Issue |
Scrappable |
Allow Reducing |
XXPAC2 |
Nettable |
Automatic Reservation |
Manual Reservation |
Not Order Issue |
Not Non-Order Issue |
Scrappable |
Allow Reducing |
XXPAC3 |
Nettable |
Not Automatic Reservation |
Manual Reservation |
Not Order Issue |
Not Non-Order Issue |
Scrappable |
Allow Reducing |
XXPAC4 |
Not Nettable |
Not Automatic Reservation |
Manual Reservation |
Not Order Issue |
Not Non-Order Issue |
Scrappable |
Allow Reducing |
XXPAC5 |
Not Nettable |
Not Automatic Reservation |
Not Manual Reservation |
Not Order Issue |
Not Non-Order Issue |
Scrappable |
Allow Reducing |
Your supplier of XX–58–401 has informed you that their latest
shipment may be faulty. You have to immediately block these parts from being
sold.
- Open the Inventory Part In Stock window, and
query for the specified part.
- Apply Part Availability Control XXPAC3 by selecting the row holding the
faulty parts. Use the right mouse button menu to change the ID.
- Open the
Material Requisition window, create a requisition
for the part, and reserve it manually. What happens? Why?
- Try to issue both manually and automatically. Is this allowed? Under what
circumstances?
- Open the Inventory Part In Stock window, and
connect all part availability controls to different parts/locations. Use the
right mouse button menu to change the availability control.
- Connect Part Availability Control XXPAC1 to Part XX–58–401 at a location.
- Connect Part Availability Control XXPAC2 to Part XX–58–402 at a location.
- Connect Part Availability Control XXPAC3 to Part XX–58–403 at a location.
- Connect Part Availability Control XXPAC4 to Part XX–58–404 at a location.
- Check the availability in the
Inventory Part Availability Planning window. What has happened?
- Create a customer order for each part. Release the orders.
- Open the
Reserve
Customer Order Lines window. Right-click and then click
Reserve
to reserve the order lines automatically. What is the result?
- Right-click and then click
Make Manual Reservation to reserve the
order lines that have not been reserved.
- Use the
Create Pick List for Customer Orders window to create pick lists.
- Use the
Report Picking of Pick Lists window to pick report the order lines.
- Deliver the order lines. What is the result?
- Open the Warehouse Navigator window.
- Search for your site.
- Select Warehouse XX Section B on the navigator.
- Enter Availability Control ID XXPAC4 on the Warehouse Value field in the
Default
Part Availability Control area.
- Open the Transport Task
window.
- Create a transport task and add a transport task
line with part XX-DEF-PAC-PART, from Warehouse XX Section A to Warehouse XX
Section B.
- Save.
- Right-click on the header and then click Execute.
- Open the Inventory Part
in Stock window.
- Look at the value on the Availability Control ID field.
What is the ID and why?