Manage Active Supply Chain

Outcome

In (MWS150), the existing relationships formed by order initiation or pre-allocation are displayed between order lines. In addition to the visualization of the supply chain, it will offer easy access to the maintenance of order lines by having related options for rescheduling, material plan, and delivery lines.

Orders linked using pre-allocation have the option to display the orders with fulfilled pre-allocations. To do this, the parameters 'Supply chn hist' and 'Disp SCO hist' must be activated on 'Settings – Acquisition' (CRS723/E).

Before you start

• An active supply chain where demanding and supplying order lines are linked to each other is required. The links between orders could be order-initiated relationships (including line types 1, 2, and 3) or pre-allocations.
• Review the settings on the P panel.
• Check whether additional information is required apart from what is offered by default, in case you need to generate your own sorting orders and customized views. Some functionality is extended to or even limited to aggregated records, which implies the use of efficient sorting options and enabled aggregation control.

Description

To display a supply chain in 'Active Supply Chain. Display' (MWS150), use one of these methods:

• Open the program from an order line program, which will automatically specify the order line information. Several programs such as 'Purchase Order. Open Lines' (PPS201), 'Customer Order. Open Line' (OIS101), 'Material Plan. Open' (MMS080), and 'Supply Chain Header. Open' (RPS200) offer this related option.
• Open the program from an order header program, which will automatically specify the order information. The programs which offer this related option are: 'Purchase Order. Open' (PPS200), 'Customer Order. Open' (OIS100), 'Customer Order. Open Toolbox' (OIS300), 'Req/Distr Order. Open' (MMS100), and 'Manufacturing Order. Open' (PMS100).
• Open the program as a standalone instance and enter an order category and order number of your choice.

When you access the supply chain in (MWS150), you can also perform these actions:

• The supply chain is generated from the order selected in the panel header and will always have level 0 in the table. You can switch this key order by using the option 'Select' (Ctrl+1) on any other record in the table, as long as the records does not contain several different order numbers in an aggregation because this could potentially give you a different supply chain. For example, if a purchase order line contains 50 customer order lines that are pre-allocated, selecting the purchase order line will show all 50 customer order lines in the supply chain. If you select one of the customer order lines, only this order line and the purchase order line will be displayed in the supply chain. Style & color filtering
• If (MWS150) was opened by using a related option from another program and then another order was selected, action F17='Original order' will automatically re-select the order with which you entered the program.
• Existing planned orders in the supply chain can be released by using the F18='Release All', which will release all the planned orders visible in the table. You could also release a single order line, or several order lines in an aggregated record by selecting it and by using related option 18='Release order'. The table holds a planned order (NBOPRP) field, which can be useful if you want to personalize your view.
• Options 2='Change' and 5='Display' will open the program that is most connected to the specific order category.
• All other related options will open programs that can be used to control order lines, where some are only applicable for certain order categories.

Fashion-specific functionality

All functionality described in this section is only available when the Fashion I-switch is enabled.

• In (MWS150/P), the 'Style & color filtering' parameter is available. If this parameter is enabled, four new filtering fields will be available in (MWS150/B): 'Style' (from and to) and 'Color' (from and to). The values entered in these filters will apply only to the order lines of the key order supplied in the header panel from which the supply chain is generated. This makes the filter more dynamic than the traditional filter, since manufacturing materials would still be included in the displayed data.

  For example, open (MWS150) with a customer order, connected to a manufacturing order, which in its turn is connected to a purchase order of the materials. When you apply the style filter, the corresponding order lines to the selected style and the supply chain based on these selections will be generated.

  The materials on purchase order lines, assuming they are connected to the customer order lines, would still be visible in the supply chain, regardless if they contain a different style or item number than the selection of style and/or color that is selected.

  Note that if only one field is specified with a value, either the 'From' field or the 'To' field is interpreted as requesting only one style or one color. To select a range of styles or colors, specify values for both the 'From' field and the 'To' field.

  Style Style & color filtering is only available for order categories 250 (Planned PO), 251 (Purchase order), and 311 (Customer order).

• Deletion of orders

  You can delete order lines directly from (MWS150/B), with some restrictions and only under the following circumstances:

  • The order categories are 100, 101, 250, 251, 311, 500, or 501.
  • If the record is aggregated, it must not contain different warehouses or order categories.
  • The record may not be positioned on a lower supply chain level than the lines of the key order selected in the panel header. For example, it may not be positioned on a level less than 0. The purpose of this restriction is to avoid deletions of order lines where we cannot view the full effect of a deletion. For example, if we are using a customer order line as key order on the header panel and the purchase order line is connected to this customer order line, it is important to know that this purchase order line may potentially be connected to any number of other order lines that we do not see at this point. To be able to delete, select the purchase order line which will make all of its connections visible.
• Deletion of orders – error messages

  In addition to the restrictions already described, all checks normally performed before deleting an order line is also performed here. Warning messages are ignored when a deletion is performed from (MWS150), but any stop message will end the deletion process for that order line.

  If a deletion attempt from (MWS150) results in any order lines being stopped, an application message will be recorded in 'Application Message. Open' (CRS420) with application message type 080 'Deletion of order lines failed'. Linked to this application message, there will be detailed messages recorded in 'Detailed Mail Message. Open' (CMS421), one for every failed order line. The message contains a text with information on order category, order line numbers, and the actual stop message.

• Parameters to set

  Program ID/Panel	Field	The field indicates …
  (MWS150/P)	Date format	… which date format to use when displaying dates on the B panel.
  (MWS150/P)	Definition of delayed order	… the date that is compared to the current date to determine whether the order is late. There are different options depending on the reference order category.
  (MWS150/P)	Panel sequence	… the panels displayed when selecting 'Show' on the order line. There are different panels available depending on the reference order category.
  (MWS150/P)	MO explosion	… whether the manufacturing order structure is exploded. If you check this box, all acquisition orders for the material lines are displayed. Note that this can reduce performance when the product structure is complex.
  (MWS150/P)	Style & color filter	… an enablement of filters for style and color. The values entered in these filters will apply only to the order lines of the key order supplied in the header panel from which the supply chain is then generated. This means that connected manufacturing material would show in the table regardless if the material has a different style or not. This field is only available when the fashion I-switch is enabled.
  (MWS150/P)	Exclude unconnected lines	… whether unconnected order lines will be displayed or not. If you check this box, order lines without supply chain connections will be excluded from the table.