Material Requirements Control
Open material requirements are satisfied when components are issued and backflushed.
Open Requirements
When you create jobs and repetitive schedules that have bills of material, routings, or both, material requirements for the appropriate components are automatically created. These requirements (demands) are considered 'open' until they are fulfilled.
The MRP planning process and available to promise calculations include open requirements as demand but do not formally allocate them to their parent jobs and repetitive schedules.
Shortages
Material shortages occur when insufficient inventory exists to cover open requirements. The MRP planning process reports current and projected material shortages and develops a plan to satisfy those shortages.
Negative Requirements
You can use negative material requirements to recover by-products or other reusable components. Jobs and repetitive schedules supply negative requirements instead of consuming them. See: By-Product Recovery.
Available-to-Promise Materials
You can view available-to-promise (ATP) status of components as you define, simulate, and view discrete jobs and as you view repetitive schedules. See: Viewing Component ATP Information
WIP Shortage Reporting
The Discrete Job Shortage and Repetitive Schedule Shortage Reports list shortages or open requirements for jobs and repetitive schedules based on requirement date. You can optionally include quantities in non-nettable subinventories in the on-hand quantities displayed on these reports. You can also use these report to view bulk and supplier component requirements.
The View Material Requirements window can be used to view the requirements for a component across jobs and schedules. You can view quantities required and issued for each component.
Material Requirements Reporting
You can supplement materials information provided by WIP reports and inquiries with Oracle Inventory reports and inquiries. For example, you can use Oracle Inventory reports to list on-hand balances and transaction information. See: Oracle Inventory Reports and Processes.
See Also
Overview of Material Requirements Planning
Available to Promise
Reports and Processes
