Use

When you assign a material component to a network activity, you can determine the offset of the requirements date to activity dates or enter a fixed date manually. You can predefine the offset to the activity dates in the BOM.

By aligning the requirements date with the activity dates, you can ensure that the requirements dates are adjusted automatically when the activities are rescheduled.

Activities

Aligning a Requirements Date to an Activity Date

You specify on the component detail screen in the Quantity/Reservation section whether the requirements date is aligned with the start date or the finish date of the activity.

If you have not set the Align. Fin. Date indicator (stage components based on finish date) in the network profile, the system uses the start date as a default.

In the Offset field you can determine how long before or after the activity date the component is staged. A negative value means the component is staged before the activity date, a positive value after.

Entering an Offset in the Bill of Material

You can predefine an offset on the item detail screen of the BOM. This offset refers to the start date or the finish date of the activity the component is assigned to, depending on the settings in the network.

Manually Entering a Requirements Date

You manually overwrite the requirements date proposed by the system in the Quantity/Reservation section of the component detail screen The system then sets the manual reqmts date indicator automatically.