Manage Material Coverage

With the Manage Material Coverage app, you can do the following:

• View a list of the materials you selected

• View details of the stock/requirements situation as a table or as a chart

• Choose a different shortage definition to check how the stock/requirements situation changes for the selected material

• View an aggregated table in which the same MRP elements for the same day are aggregated into one line

• View additional material information

• Display, edit and enter notes for the material

• Click on an MRP element link to open a quickview with further details

• Perform the MRP run at material level

• Select a shortage to check the different solutions proposed by the system

• Preview the effects of the proposed solutions as a table or as a chart

• Choose a solution to apply the changes

• Open the delivery schedule for materials with scheduling agreements and solve the shortage by creating or changing schedule lines or creating releases

• Open a list of goods movements for a material from the delivery schedule and view additional material information

• Contact your vendors to request changes to purchase orders and stock transport orders

• View a list of open change requests for a material in a popup

• Navigate to the Manage Change Requests app to place and manage your requests

• Navigate to the Monitor Material Coverage app to get an overview of your materials

• Navigate to fact sheets and back-end transactions to access further information or change material data

In addition, the app supports the following technical features and options:

• If the order unit of a material is different from its base unit of measure (base UoM), you can change the quantity of purchase orders and requisitions in the order unit. The system immediately shows you the quantity in the base UoM as well. You can access the popups for changing dates and quantities from the respective quickviews and solution cards.