Check the Collective Availability in the Background 

Use

You use the collective availability check in the background if you have large amounts of data to process and do not want to impair system performance. You can run the check over night and see the results the following morning in printed form.

Procedure

  1. Starting from the node in Material Requirements Planning choose Planned order ® Collective avail. check.

    2. The system displays the initial screen for the collective availability check.

    The system proposes standard profiles for the order lists and component lists.

  2. Enter a user profile if you do not what to create the order list or component list as a standard list.
  3. Enter your selection criteria for the planned orders.

    4. If you enter an MRP controller, for example, the system selects all planned orders for this MRP controller.

  4. To do this, select Show check mode.

    5. The system displays the field for defining the check mode in the lower section of the screen.

  5. Make the desired settings for the check mode (see Check Mode for the Collective Availability Check.).
  6. Select Program ® Execute in background.

    7. The dialog box for entering the background print parameters appears.

  7. Enter the printer parameters if the system does not propose them and choose .

    8. The system displays the dialog box Start date values.

  8. Plan the print request and choose .

The system saves the background job. You return to the initial screen for the collective availability check.

Result

The list is printed at the time chosen.