You can accurately maintain your delivery capacity online. Your buying company can allocate planned orders taking into account your changes to the capacity constraints. This provides more accuracy and flexibility in making sourcing allocations during the organization's planning, scheduling, and procurement processes.
You can update your capacity abilities for various items for which you are an approved supplier. You can use the Order Modifiers page to define processing lead times, fixed lot multiples, and minimum order quantities. You can also define tolerance fences by Days in Advance and Tolerance on the Maintain Capacity page. Once your updates are submitted, the company's buyer is notified and their approved supplier list is updated with your information. The company can then better allocate planned orders taking allocation and current capacities into account.
You can update the following capacity constraints for each item that has been sourced to you:
Processing lead time
Order modifiers: minimum order quantity and fixed lot multiple
Capacity per day for a range of effective date
Tolerance fences: tolerance percentage and days in advance
After you change capacity information, a notification is sent to the planner and the buyer. Based on the preference set by the buying company, the information may go through an approval from a buyer or planner. You will be notified of the status of the request.
To maintain capacity information:
Click the Product tab, click Maintain Capacity in the task bar directly below the tabs.
On the Maintain Capacity page, enter search criteria information.
Click Search. (You can perform a blind search by clicking Search without entering any criteria. This results in all items assigned to you being displayed).
Select your item and click Maintain Capacity.
Note: The Maintain Capacity page displays information from today's date forward. You can modify the current defined capacity or create new entries by clicking Add Another Row.
You can also add or modify the Over Capacity Tolerance by changing existing Days in Advance and Tolerance values.
Note: To add additional Over Capacity Tolerance information, click Add Another Row.
When you have completed your update, click Update Capacity. An Update Capacity Confirmation message is displayed.