Shortage Overview
You can use this function to display aggregated information about the shortage situation for selected location products. If you identify any critical or potentially critical products in this overview, you can analyze the details, for instance in the Shortage Monitor
.
Critical products/potentially critical products
The system displays products as critical or potentially critical products if the threshold values defined in Customizing for the days’ supply are exceeded. You make these settings in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization
under: . For more information about the days' supply, see Shortage Monitor and Calculating Days' Supply and Open Quantities.
Sales order items/sales order quantity
The system displays items and the quantity for open sales orders. You can analyze the details of open sales orders in the Shortage Monitor
on the Sales Order View
subscreen.
Backorder items/backorder quantity
The system displays sales order items and their and their backlog quantity.
Rush order items/rush order quantity
The system displays sales orders as rush orders if the requirements defined in Customizing for this are met. You make these settings in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization
under: . You can analyze the details of open sales orders, which the system has classified as rush orders, in the Shortage Monitor
on the Sales Order View
subscreen.
Confirmation status sufficient
If products have the status Critical
or Potentially Critical
, suppliers can respond to this with a supplier confirmation or can send an ASN. If the supplier confirmations received are sufficient to cover the open quantity, the system assigns the corresponding status and displays this status in an aggregated format (number of sufficient confirmations) in this overview. You can view details of the request status in the Shortage Monitor
application.
Declined ASN items
The system displays the number of ASN items that the system has declined for technical reasons.
Old notes
The system displays the number of old analyst notes. You define the number of days after which an analyst note is outdated (expiry date) in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization
under: . You can analyze notes in more detail in the Analyst Note
application.
Backorder products
The system displays the number of products for which sales orders are available in the backlog.
Overdue schedule lines/schedule line quantities
The system displays the number and quantity of overdue schedule lines. The planning service SPP_REP_DUE determines the overdue schedule lines.
TPOP items/TPOP quantity
The system displays items and the quantity for open TPOP sales orders. You can analyze the details of open TPOP sales orders in the Shortage Monitor
on the Sales Order View
subscreen.
Overdue TPOP items/TPOP quantity
The system displays the number and quantity of overdue TPOP purchase orders. The planning service SPP_REP_DUE determines the overdue TPOP purchase orders.
TPOP: rush order items/rush order quantity
The system displays TPOP sales orders as rush orders if the requirements defined in Customizing for this are met. You make these settings in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization
under: . You can analyze the details of open TPOP sales orders, which the system has classified as rush orders, in the Shortage Monitor
on the Sales Order View
subscreen.
Overdue TPOP rush items/TPOP rush quantity
The system displays the number and quantity of overdue TPOP purchase orders for rush orders. The planning service SPP_REP_DUE determines the overdue TPOP purchase orders.
Oldest due date (schedule)
The system displays the oldest due date for all overdue schedule lines.
Overdue order items/quantities for internal kitting
The system displays the overdue quantities and the number of overdue order items for production orders that the system generates for internal kitting. These overdue quantities and order items are determined by the SPP_REP_DUE7 planning service. You can specify which quantities and order items this planning service identifies as overdue in Customizing. For more information, see Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization
under .
Suppliers cannot display these values since kitting is carried out internally, that is, at a location in your BOD.
Overdue order items/quantities for internal repair
The system displays the overdue quantities and the number of overdue order items for planned orders that the system has generated for internal repair. These overdue quantities and order items are determined by the SPP_REP_DUE7 planning service.
Suppliers cannot display these values since repairs are carried out internally, that is, at a location in your BOD.
Overdue order items/quantities for external repair or external kitting
The system displays the overdue quantities and the number of overdue order items for subcontract orders that the system has generated for external kitting or external repair. These overdue quantities and order items are determined by the SPP_REP_DUE7 planning service.
As a planner, you can view the overdue order items and quantities of the main supplier here.
Choose Start
, or make a selection and then choose Start
.
The system displays shortage information in an aggregated format and only observes suppliers and product groups, which are assigned to your user (indirectly via the assignment of the planner to the location product) (see also Assigning Planners in Service Parts Planning).
To perform additional evaluations of critical and potentially critical products, you can for instance access the Supplier Overview
application.