Check the Collective Availability in the Foreground 

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.

  3. Enter a user profile if you do not want to create the order list or component list as a standard list.
  4. Enter the selection criteria for the planned orders and choose .
  5. If you enter an MRP controller, for example, the system selects all planned orders for this MRP controller.

    The overview of the selected planned orders appears.

  6. Select the planned orders for which you want to check the availability of the components and choose .
  7. The system displays the dialog box for the collective availability check.

    The parameters for the availability check have already been selected. If you want to change these, choose and select the relevant parameters in the dialog box (see Check Mode for Collective Availability Check)

  8. Choose to start the check.
  9. The system displays the results in the planned order overview list.

  10. To display the components of a planned order, select the planned orders and choose Missing parts.
  11. The missing parts view of the selected planned orders now appears.

    With All components or Only missing parts you can change between different views.

  12. Choose .
  13. The overview of the selected planned orders appears again.

  14. If necessary, change the dates of the planned orders for which components are not available until a later date. To do so, access the planned orders individually from the overview list and change them. Check the availability for the changed planned orders.

Result

The data calculated in the availability check is automatically saved to the database.