Identifying and Resolving Picking Shortages
When processed by the Reserve Materials process, orders are set to the fulfillment state of releasable. Also, demand lines with non-soft reserved, non-ATP items can be added in the releasable state. Because non-soft-reserved and ATP-reserved demand lines are not reserved against the available quantity for the business unit, you may not have enough available quantity at the time of order release to fulfill the order. To check for possible shortages before order release, run the Picking Shortage report or use the Shortage Workbench.
The Picking Shortage report process calculates the total quantity available to pick and subtracts the total demand for these items for a given picking lead time.
Total quantity available equals the sum of the available quantity (quantity on hand minus quantity reserved) in the business unit's nettable, non-work-in-process (WIP) storage locations with an inventory status of Open.
Demand quantity for each order line is the planned release quantity.
When the available quantity is less than the demand quantity for an item, the Picking Shortage report lists the item and all of the order lines scheduled for fulfillment within the picking lead time.
Note: Order lines for non-soft-reserved items that have been lot allocated are excluded from the Picking Shortage report, because they have already been allocated at the storage location level. If necessary, you can deallocate these lines on the Allocate Lots page.
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Picking Shortage Report Page |
RUN_INS6060 |
Specify parameters for the Picking Shortage report. Generate the Picking Shortage report to identify shortages for non-soft-reserved and ATP-promised order lines before including them on a picking plan. |
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IN_SW_SELECTION |
Enter search criteria and select the page to view your order or demand lines. |
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IN_SW_ORDERPOOL |
Displays the search results at the order level. Using this page, you can perform actions at the order-level. |
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IN_SW_DEMANDLINES |
Displays the search results at the demand line level. Using this page, you can perform actions at the demand line level, including overriding the planned release quantity for the demand line. |
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IN_SW_ITEMVIEW |
Provides an item-focused view of your fulfillment needs by displaying demand lines for a specific Inventory business unit and item ID combination. Using this page, you can compare demand lines competing for the same item and perform actions at the demand line level, including overriding the planned release quantity for the demand line. |
Use the Shortage Workbench page (IN_SW_SELECTION) to enter search criteria and select the page to view your order or demand lines.
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Using the planned release fields on the Item View or Demand Lines view of the Shortage Workbench you can change the quantity to be released to picking. For more information about the Shortage Workbench, see the Managing Stock Shortages topic.