Planning Availability Report

Shows an overview of all known existing requirements and receipts for the items that you select on a specific date. You can use the report to get a quick picture of the current demand-supply situation for an item.

The report displays the item number and description plus the actual quantity in inventory. Changes to the projected available inventory are listed chronologically and shown in the following columns:

Gross Requirement: This is the total demand, independent and dependent, for the particular item. Independent demand comes from sales orders, service orders, transfer orders and production forecasts. Dependent demand comes from production order components from planned, firm planned and released production orders. Component demand for production order proposals in planning and requisition worksheets is also included.

Planned Receipts: These are the items from replenishment order proposals. This includes planned production orders, planning worksheets and requisition worksheets.

Scheduled Receipts: These are the items from replenishment orders. This includes firm planned production orders, released production orders, purchase orders and transfer orders.

Projected Balance: This shows the projected available inventory, which includes current inventory + scheduled receipts + planned receipts - requirements. Note that when calculating a replenishment plan, the program will regard a projected balance, which is negative, as an additional requirement. The projected balance is effected by several parameters, which are located on the Item card, Planning tab:

• The Reorder Point and Safety Stock fields allow you to specify a desired inventory level. The program will treat a requirement that is derived from these fields as any other requirement when planning item replenishment.

• The Include Inventory field specifies whether to include the current inventory quantity when calculating the projected available balance. It is normal practice to use inventory to fulfill outstanding requirements.

Document Type: This shows the type of document that is the source of the availability.

Document No.: This shows the number of the relevant source document.

Options

Detailed: Select "Yes" if you want the report to display a detailed list of each demand and supply entry. Select "No" if you do not want the report to display a detailed list. The report will instead show the total cumulative demand and supply.