To define shortage parameters: You can enable the system to send material shortage alerts and shortage notifications when a material shortage occurs in an organization. A material shortage occurs whenever unsatisfied demand exceeds available quantity for incoming supply of material. See Material Shortage Alerts and Shortage Notifications.
To define shortage parameters: Navigate to the Shortage Parameters window.
In the Work In Process tabbed region, select shortage parameters to configure what is considered as demand.
Check Shortages: Indicates that the material shortage check is enabled for WIP.
Jobs and Schedules regions:
Released: Indicates that all jobs/schedules with status Released, whose scheduled start date is overdue, are included in the material shortage check. This parameter is separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
Unreleased: Indicates that all jobs/schedules with status Unreleased, whose scheduled start date is overdue, are included in the material shortage check. This parameter is separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
Days Overdue: Indicates how many days can go by after the jobs/schedules start date until jobs/schedules with status Released or Unreleased are included in the material shortage check. This parameter functions only if you checked Released or Unreleased. This parameter is separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
Hold: Indicates that all jobs/schedules with status Hold are included in the material shortage check. This parameter can be separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
Component Is Due subregions:
Based on required date: Indicates that the required date specified for each component will be used to determine whether the open requirement is late. This parameter is separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
If assigned operation is due: Indicates that all discrete jobs or repetitive schedules with a current operation that has assigned open material requirements are included in the material shortage check. This parameter can be separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
If operation before assigned operation is due: Indicates that all discrete jobs or repetitive schedules with a current operation before an operation that has assigned open material requirements are included in the material shortage check. This parameter is separately controlled for jobs and schedules.
Exclusions region:
The shortage check looks at the supply type of components on the job or schedule. The supply type may be Based on Bill or manually overridden when jobs or schedules are created.
Bulk Components: Indicates that components with supply type Bulk will be excluded in the material shortage check.
Supplier Components: Indicates that components supplied by vendor will be excluded in the material shortage check.
Pull Components: Indicates that pull components will be excluded in the material shortage check.
Notify region: Select who will receive a workflow notification about the material shortage.
Component Planner: The user name assigned to the item attribute Planner for the component item will be notified. See Defining Planners, Oracle Master Scheduling / MRP and Oracle Supply Chain Planning User's Guide.
Assembly Planner: The user name assigned to the item attribute Planner for the assembly item will be notified.
Component Buyer: The user name assigned to the item attribute Default Buyer for the component item will be notified. See Defining Buyers.
Job/Schedule Creator: The user name of the job/schedule creator will be notified.
Select the Order Management tabbed region.
Select Order Management shortage parameters.
Check Shortages: A sales order is considered overdue when the pick wave move order is unfulfilled.
Additional Information: A pick wave move order can exist if no available/on-hand quantity exists at pick release, or if the pick wave move order is pick confirmed short or backordered at ship confirm.
Item Planner: The user name assigned to the item attribute Planner for the item will be notified.
Order Creator: The user name of the order creator will be notified.
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