Generate Inventory Part Availability Exceptions

Explanation

This activity is used to generate exception messages for inventory parts.

The default settings can be used by selecting the Default feature. Default settings are derived from the Database Tasks window set by the administrator.  

Prerequisites

Inventory parts must exist.

System Effects

• Exception messages will be created. There are eight messages:

• Available Covers - This message appears if the total supply is greater than 0 and the quantity on hand is greater than the sum of total demand and safety stock.
• Available < Safety Stock - This message appears if the supply or demand exists, and the quantity on hand is less than the safety stock .
• Has Supply Past Due - This message appears if there are delayed supplies.
• Has Demand Past Due - This message appears if there are demands that are due for delivery, but have not been delivered as yet. 
• Excess of Orders - This message appears if the sum of total supply and quantity on hand is greater than the sum of total demand and safety stock. 
• Need Orders - This message appears if the sum of total supply and quantity on hand is less than the sum of total demand and safety stock.
• Negative Projected On Hand - This message appears if the projected on hand value is negative, and the registered date projected on hand is negative. 
• No Demand Exists - This message appears if the total demand is zero.

• If you have scheduled the task as a background job, the task will be automatically performed based on the defined selection criteria.

Window

Generate Inventory Part Availability Exceptions

Related Window Descriptions

Generate Inventory Part Availability Exceptions

Procedure

You can either generate inventory part availability exceptions directly (procedure A), or schedule the task as a background job (procedure B).

A. To generate inventory part availability exceptions directly:

1. Open the Generate Inventory Part Availability Exceptions dialog box. 
2. Enter a value in the Site field. Do this either by entering a value, or click List to select a value from the List of Values. 
3. Optionally, you can enter parameters to limit the message generation.
4. If all the necessary selection criteria have been defined, click OK to complete the operation.

Note: Click Default if you want to use the default settings. 

B. To schedule the generate inventory part availability exceptions task as a background job:

1. Click Schedule to open the New Database Task Schedule window. Set the scheduling parameters as desired and save. Scheduled tasks can be seen in Scheduled Database Tasks window.