Time-phased inventory check

With a time-phased inventory check, the availability of sufficient inventory during the item's order lead time can be checked for sales order lines or sales quotation lines. This means that the difference between the inventory on hand and the allocations at that particular moment are ignored. Instead, LN considers the difference between the inventory on hand and all planned inventory transactions during the entire order lead time

LN performs a time-phased inventory check only if:

Example
Current date01-10-
Current inventory on hand100-
Planned purchase receipt on01-1125 units
Planned sales order on10-11100 units
Planned sales order on01-121000 units
Order lead time2 months-

 

A time-phased inventory check registers the following available inventory:

01-11125 units
10-1125 units
01-12-975 units

 

If you enter a sales order for 100 units on 10-10 with 15-11 as the delivery date, a time-phased inventory check is performed. The delivery date falls within the order lead-time (before 01-12). The available inventory on 15-11 is 25 units. Because the allocation of 100 units exceeds the available inventory, LN automatically takes the correct action, or starts the Inventory Shortage Menu (tdsls4830s000) session in which you can select the required action.