Use Up ECOs
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP automatically computes and stores the use-up date for each item it plans on each MRP plan. The use-up date is the date when on-hand quantity is exhausted based on projected gross requirements. It calculates the use-up date by applying any on-hand quantity in inventory (supply) against any gross requirements (demand). When calculating the date, it does not consider scheduled receipts or repetitive schedules as supply.
Revised Item Effective Dates Linked to Use-Up Dates
When you define a revised item on an ECO, you can base the revised item effective date on the use-up date of another item.
When you define a revised item on an ECO, you can select the use-up date for all components of the revised item and the use-up date of the revised item itself for all MRP plans that include those items. Doing so will default the plan name and use-up item. The revised item effective date is now linked to a use-up date.
Alternatively, for a revised item, you can select a use-up item, which can be any component of the revised item or the revised item itself. But since the plan name is not specified, the revised item effective date is not linked to a use-up date.
Use-Up Alerts
Engineering uses Oracle Alert to automatically notify planners whenever the MRP planning process computes a new use-up date for an item if it is a use-up item for an ECO revised item. For example, if revised item A specifies item B as its use-up item (so the revised item effective date for A equals B's use-up date), then if the MRP planning process computes a different use-up date for B, Oracle Alert notifies the planner for A that B's use-up date no longer equals the revised item effective date for A.
See Also
Material Planning Logic
Reviewing the Horizontal Plan
Creating an ECO
Oracle Engineering Alerts
