Placing Demand
Place demand to communicate current or future product needs to Oracle Inventory and other manufacturing products for forecasting and planning purposes. Depending on your business practices, you may place demand on-line at order entry, in the background after order entry, on-line during scheduling, or only as the item is being released for shipment. Additionally, you may want some items always to require an ATP check before demand is placed. You can implement a combination of these approaches depending on the item or order type.
If you want to place demand either on-line or in the background, you define your items with the item attribute OE Transactable set to Yes. If you additionally want to check ATP each time the item is demanded, you need to set the item attribute Check ATP to Yes. If you are demanding configurations (models with options), you also need to set the item attribute ATP Components to Yes at the appropriate levels in a model bill of material to ensure that Order Entry/Shipping finds all the items in the configuration whose availability you want checked.
Once you successfully place demand for an order, line, or detail, Order Entry/Shipping passes the information to Oracle Inventory and to Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning. A demanded item can be reserved for another order.
To place demand on-line:
1. Navigate to a child window of the Sales Orders or Schedule Orders windows.
2. Select an order line or schedule detail to demand.
3. Choose the Schedule button to navigate to the Schedule dialog window.
4. Select the Scope for the demand and select Demand as the action.
5. Choose the Schedule button.
A message appears notifying you when the process is complete, and the Status for the line is changed to Demanded.
6. Choose Schedule Results from the Special menu to display the View Schedule Results window.
The Action field displays Demanded. If the process fails, the reason displays in the Failure Reason field.
To place demand using the Demand Interface:
1. Navigate to the Demand Interface window.
The Demand Interface is a concurrent program that places demand in the same manner as the on-line process, except that it works in batch mode as a background process. You must include the Demand Interface standard cycle action in those order cycles where you want to place demand. See: Order Cycles.
2. Enter Demand Interface in the Name field.
3. Enter the order number in the Parameters window.
4. Optionally, set the interface to resubmit automatically at a given time or time interval so that it continues to run throughout the day, processing any eligible order lines.
See Also
Overview of Order Scheduling
Scheduling an Order or Order Line
Simultaneous Online and Batch Demand
Demand for Check ATP Items
Item Attributes Used by Order Entry/Shipping
