Component Availability Management enables production schedulers to react to unplanned component shortage situations and make adjustments. You can take stock of open component requirements of work orders at a point of time, and set up the system to order production of jobs in a specified priority sequence. The Components Availability region provides both a job and a component view.

Job View

• The Job View shows components available or required in relationship to the work order details, and is visible on either a single table view by allocation order or in the following regions:

  • Unreleased Fully Allocated Jobs

  • Unreleased Partially Allocated and Unallocated Jobs

  • In Process Jobs

• Jobs are marked as either having all components available or having component shortages.

• Job inclusion criteria enables production schedulers to review open component requirements and take actions such as releasing work orders that have all components available; or canceling, putting on hold, or changing resources of work orders.

• Forced allocation provides the ability for component requirements for a job to be exchanged or deallocated. Components can be deallocated from some jobs and allocated to others starting with the top most priority, using on-hand balances of the components.

Component View

• The Component View shows information on component buyer, quantities, and subinventory.

Component Availability Calculations

• Use the Component Availability Calculations parameter to define components and allocations. For each organization and calculation level record, you can define the following settings:

  • Job Priority Rules sets chronological priority order of job operation components considered for allocation.

  • Job Inclusion Criteria determines which jobs are considered in the component availability calculation.

  • Component Inclusion Criteria determines which components are considered with various options for the component availability calculation.

  • Forced Allocation Rules determines which allocated jobs would be exempted from deallocation.

  See: Component Availability

• Select Launch Component Availability Calculations to generate data using the Component Shortage Calculation concurrent request. This program calculates and lists the job operations based on the setup for component availability calculations.

  See: Component Shortage Calculation

   To view component availability in the job oriented view:

1. Navigate to the Component Availability page and select the Job View tabbed region.

   You have the option to view the information in a categorized or single view. The Single View table displays all work order records in a table by allocation order.

   The Categorized View table displays three regions including:

   • Unreleased Fully Allocated Jobs

   • Unreleased Partially Allocated and Unallocated Jobs

   • In Process Jobs

2. Use the Filter Options region to restrict the data displayed by selecting values in the following fields:

   • Assembly

   • Status

   • Job

   • Start Date From and To

   • All Components Available

   • Demand Class

   • Schedule Group

   • Build Sequence

   • Base Assembly

   • Planner

   • Customer

   • Sales Order

   • Ship Date From and To

   • Project Number

   • Task Number

3. Select Go.

   The results of your query appear in the three regions.

   In the categorized view, depending on the region, job information appears in a table in the following fields:

   • Details

   • Job number

   • Job Status

   • Assembly number

   • Planner

   • Buyer

   • Quantity Start and Completed numbers

   • Unit of Measure

   • Start Date

   • Customer

   • Number of Components: Total and With Shortage

   • All Components Available flag

   • Allocation: Order and Actions

4. Select a Job link record to navigate to the details page for a particular work order, see: Viewing Job Details

5. Select the Customer name link to view sales order summary information.

6. In the Actions column, select the drop-down arrow to choose one of the following actions, depending on the region:

   • Unreleased Fully Allocated Jobs region: Unallocate

   • Unreleased Partially Allocated region: Force Allocate

7. Select Details to show the listing of components by Operation Sequence. The information appears in the following fields:

   • Operation Sequence

   • Component

   • Supply Subinventory

   • Date Required

   • On Hold

   • Projected Availability

   • Open Quantity

   • Shortage

   • Unit of Measure

   • Available

   • Expected Supply

8. Select the Component link to navigate to the Component View tabbed region showing all the work orders using this component.

   See: Component View

9. Select the Expected Supplies icon to show a summary of the quantity and dates of the component ordered.

10. Review and select the relevant records, and select appropriate tasks for specific work orders in the Actions box.

    • Select Add Notes to navigate to the Update Note page to enter job information details. See: Updating Job Notes

    • Other choices depending on if the job meets the appropriate criteria are:

      • Cancel Job

      • Put Job On Hold

      • Release Job

      • Unrelease Job

11. After you select the action, select Go.

12. You have the option to select records in the tables and select Export. This action will save or open the details as a comma separated values file (.csv) for a spreadsheet.

13. Select Switch to Single View Table to view all work order records in a table by allocation order.

14. Use the Filter Options region to restrict the data displayed by selecting values and selecting Go.

15. In the single view, information appears in a table in the following fields:

    • Details

    • Job number

    • Job Status

    • Assembly number

    • Planner

    • Quantity: Start and Completed values

    • Unit of Measure

    • Completion Date

    • Customer

    • Number of Components: Total and With Shortage

    • All Components Available flag

16. This view enables you to select records and perform actions. Select appropriate records, and in the Select and field, choose one of the following actions relevant to your component availability situations:

    • Add Note

    • Cancel Job

    • Put Job On Hold

    • Release Job

    • Unrelease Job

   To view component availability in the component oriented view:

1. Navigate to the Component Availability page and select the Component View tabbed region.

2. Use the Filter Options region to restrict the data displayed by selecting values.

   There are two sections in the Filter Options region, select search criteria in the following fields:

   Show Components with

   • Component

   • Supply Type

   • Date Required From and To

   • Buyer

   • Category

   • Component Available

   • Subinventory

   • Locator

   Show Components of Jobs with

   • Assembly

   • Status

   • Job

   • Start Date From and To

   • Completion Date From and To

   • Demand Class

   • Schedule Group

   • Build Sequence

   • Planner

   • Customer

   • Sales Order

   • Ship Date From and To

   • Project Number

   • Task Number

3. Select go to show the results of your search.

   Information appears in the following columns:

   • Component

   • Buyer

   • Subinventory

   • On Hand

   • Open Quantity

   • Shortage

   • Unit of Measure

   • Expected Supplies

4. You have the option to select records and choose Export. This action will save or open the details as a comma separated values file (.csv) for a spreadsheet.

5. Select Details to show the listing of all jobs requiring a specific component. The information appears in the following fields:

6. Select the Expected Supplies icon to view a dialog window showing any orders for components.