| | Generating Assembly Order Lists for Critical PartsNote - LN always limits the check to orders that are
related to critical assembly parts. Refer to the Items - Production (tiipd0101m000) session
for items that are critical. Double-click an item and click the Methods tab to
view the Critical for Inventory Check field.
- The lists of assembly
orders you want to generate, are based on the list of shortage parts that is
generated in the Check Inventory (tiasc2240m000) session.
Therefore, you must be sure that the list of assembly parts is up-to-date,
before you generate the lists of orders.
To generate lists of
orders, you must specify a range of requirement dates and assembly parts.
Orders that require any of these parts on any of these dates, are included in
the list. The generation of the order lists takes into
account: Whether there are blocked orders for the combinations of
requirement dates and assembly parts in the specified range. If available, the blocked orders will all be listed. The
shortage quantity is not used as a limit for the amount of blocked orders that
are selected. The importance of blocked orders originates from the fact that
blocked orders are included in the inventory check. Because the parts
requirements of blocked orders are also checked, although these parts will not
be used as long as the order is blocked, it is very important to see if the
shortage quantity does or does not exceed the blocked quantity. Also, blocked
orders are orders that require some action. Therefore, it is important to keep
them in view. - The amount of assembly
parts that are in short supply. If necessary, LN adds not-blocked
orders to the lists, until the total shortage quantity of the assembly parts is
reached.
- The number you specify
in the Number of Extra Orders field. Extra orders on the list can be useful if you want to
block other orders than LN suggests, or if you want to check if orders
can be rescheduled (to an earlier date).
- The selection criteria
you specify in the Select Orders Based On field. It can be the case that several (not-blocked) orders are
available to be blocked for the solution of the shortage problem. Then it is
better to block orders that have a low priority. Therefore, LN requires certain
criteria to select the right orders. These criteria are grouped under two
headings: Planned Offline Date and Assembly Order Status. Refer to the field Help for further details.
- Whether the Regenerate Order Lists check box is selected. If you run this session, a list of orders
is created for each combination of requirement date and assembly part, that
falls in the specified ranges. If you select this check box, LN deletes any existing
order list that falls in the specified ranges. The new lists replace the
existing lists. If you did not select the check box, the existing lists are
only updated. This means that LN compares the new lists with the existing
lists. If new lists are found, they are stored, and if new orders are found for
an existing list, they are added to the existing list.
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