The Select Available Inventory window displays available inventory that meets the demand the move order requires. It displays only material that satisfies the picking rules that are in effect, and presents the material in order of the sort criteria on the picking rules. You can then manually select the material to allocate against the move order, and the system creates the allocations.
You can modify or delete existing allocations, as well as create new allocations. If you choose to create new allocations, the system checks whether the new allocation criteria drives the lot balances negative or whether the lot is indivisible. The system honors lot-specific conversions, process manufacturing quality matches, material status, and preferred grade if you set the profile option INV: Target Preferred Grade to Yes. The information that appears on this page is available according to the picking rules you define, and sorted in the order defined on the allocation rules. The window contains four alternative regions: Document Information, Requested, Selected, and Available Inventory Details.
The Document Information alternative region contains the following information that is supplied automatically from the move order line:
Item: The item number
Description: Item description
Requested Revision: Desired revision of the item
Source Type: WIP or transaction source type
Source Number: Source type number
Line Number: Move order line number
Preferred Grade: Preferred grade that is listed on the move order
The Requested and Selected alternative regions contain the requested and selected quantity information that is listed on the move order line as well as the transaction units of measure. If the item is under dual unit of measure control, the system displays the secondary unit of measure information.
The Available Inventory Details alternative region displays the information about the currently allocated material. All of the fields except for the Selected Transaction Quantity fields and the Transaction Reason field are display-only. You can modify these fields as necessary. To delete an allocation, enter 0 in the Selected Transaction quantity fields. The Available Inventory Details alternative region contains the following information:
Subinventory: Subinventory from which to transact the material
Locator: Locator from which to transact the material
Lot Number: Available lot to transact
Revision: Revision of item to transact
Selected Transaction Quantity: The quantity to transact in the primary unit of measure. You can modify this field if necessary. You can click Default Qty to enter the default move order quantity in this field.
Secondary Selected Quantity: The quantity to transact in the secondary unit of measure if the item is under dual unit of measure control. If you modify the selected transaction quantity, this field is updated automatically. If you modify this field, then the Selected Transaction Quantity field updates automatically.
Grade: The grade of the lot to allocate
Primary Available Quantity: The total available quantity of the item to transact in the primary unit of measure.
Secondary Available Quantity: The total available quantity of the item to transact in the secondary unit of measure.
Reason Code: The reason for the transfer. See Defining Transaction Reasons for more information.
Quality Match: Indicates whether the material quality matches customer specifications.
When you finish modifying the inventory allocations you can click Default Qty to allocate according to the lot available and requested quantity. If the lot is indivisible, then the system allocates the entire lot quantity. You can click Done to accept the quantity changes that you made, or Cancel to cancel the changes.
You can also use the Tools menu to review quality specifications and results.